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My father, Daniel Boone : the Draper interviews with Nathan Boone /

Born in 1815, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we know about Daniel Boone. In an 1851 visit with Boone's youngest son, Nathan, and Nathan's wife, Olive, Draper produced over three hundred pages of notes that became the most...

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Main Author: Boone, Nathan, 1781-1856.
Contributors: Boone, Olive Van Bibber, 1783-1858., Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891., Hammon, Neal O.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999.
Subjects and Genres:
Boone, Daniel, > 1734-1820.
Boone, Nathan, > 1781-1856 > Interviews.
Boone, Olive Van Bibber, > 1783-1858 > Interviews.
Boone, Nathan, > 1781-1856.
Boone, Olive Van Bibber, > 1783-1858.
Pioneers > Kentucky > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Kentucky.
Pionniers > Kentucky > Biographies.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Pioneers.
Pioneers > Biography.
Kentucky > Biography.
Kentucky > Biographies.
Kentucky.
Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Interviews.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Nelson L. Dawson
  • 1.
  • His Early Life
  • 2.
  • The Hunter
  • 3.
  • To Kentucky
  • 4.
  • Captured by Indians
  • 5.
  • Siege of Boonesboro
  • 6.
  • Bryan's Station and the Blue Licks Defeat
  • 7.
  • Point Pleasant
  • 8.
  • Back to Kentucky
  • 9.
  • To Missouri
  • 10.
  • Hunting in Missouri
  • 11.
  • The War of 1812
  • 12.
  • The Last Years
  • App. A.
  • Nathan Boone's Letter
  • App. B.
  • Family Genealogy.

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