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Title: Daniel Boone : The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher ISBN: 0-8050-3007-7 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: America¿s First Mountain Man.
Comment: This is an interesting book about a simple man who attained mythical proportions. When we think about the mountain men, we think of the explorers of the Rocky Mountains. One hundred years earlier, however, the west included the Eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Thus, Daniel Boone and men like him were the original mountain men, the men who pushed the frontier to the western slopes of the Appalachians and beyond, all the way to the Mississippi River.
This is a reasonably well done rendition of Boone's life. Equally important, however, is the glimpse we get into America's original frontier, the one that existed between the start of the French and Indian War up to and including the Louisiana Purchase.
John Mack Faragher does a credible job on a very difficult subject. This book depicts Boone in the same vein as the mountain men of the far west: wanderers to some, explorers to other. Regardless of which camp you fall into, Daniel Boone and the men of his period represent the earliest step in the westward movement that 100 years later would be termed Manifest Destiny
Boone's is a life that reflected those first steps.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I have to disagree with the other reviewers. Overall, this book was dull. While the subject is anything but dull, Faragher managed to lose my interest several times. Daniel Boone lived a fascinating life and was a legend but I struggled to finish the book. I probably should pick another author to read about Daniel Boone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Decent biography
Comment: Although a member of the Revolutionary generation, Daniel Boone was at most an indirect participant in that historical event. Instead, Boone gets his fame from his contributions to the founding of Kentucky.
Faragher shows that Boone's contributions were less extensive than the myth of Boone would indicate. Nonetheless, Boone did provide important leadership during the early days of Kentucky's colonizations. Although a sympathetic biography of Boone, Faragher treats with great respect the Indians who Boone had numerous conflicts with.
Boone himself is portrayed as even-tempered and intelligent (though not well-educated), a man elevated to a legendary status by a contemporary biographer who was interested in Kentucky land speculation. Faragher's biography, sometimes exciting and sometimes slow, does a good job at separating myth from fact.
Since most biographies of figures of this era focus on people who were in the more developed areas of the colonies/states such as Philadelphia, Boston and New York, this biography is good at showing what life was like on the 18th century frontier. ...
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Title: The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Copeland Draper, Ted Franklin Belue ISBN: 0811709795 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert ISBN: 0945084919 Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews With Nathan Boone by Nathan Boone, Neal O. Hammon, Olive Van Bibber Boone, Lyman Copeland Draper, Nelson L. Dawson ISBN: 0813121035 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Daniel Boone: His Own Story & the Adventures of Daniel Boone: The Kentucky Rifleman by Daniel Boone, Francis L. Hawks ISBN: 1557094268 Publisher: Applewood Books Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: That Dark and Bloody River by ALLAN ECKERT ISBN: 0553378651 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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