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Boone : a biography
This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary,...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
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Table of Contents:
- Brief chronology of Daniel Boone's life
- Introduction
- The mother world of the forest
- People of the forest
- The hills beyond the Yadkin
- The Yadkin was the wild west
- Domestic arts
- In search of the real west
- Visions of Eden
- Regulators
- Return to the Bluegrass land
- Where there was no forbidden fruit
- Kentucky was the key
- The trace and the river
- Freemasonry
- Light and shadow
- Sheltowee, Son of Blackfish
- Farthest outpost of rebellion
- With chain and compass
- Father, I won't leave you
- Filson, fame, and failure
- A deale of sine is seen
- Boating in the west
- Going east to go west
- To the farther west
- Done all the good that I can
- Across the river into legend.