Faragher John Mack - Daniel Boone The Life And Legend Of An American Pioneer - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years award - winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative the public record scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth - century antiquarians Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.
Title: Daniel Boone The Life And Legend Of An American Pioneer
Author(s): Faragher John Mack
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9780805030075
Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/15/1993
Category: Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military