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Daniel Boone: An American Pioneer
Record Added: 1/29/2019
Author 
Setting United States
Topic Biography
 History: Western Expansio
Publisher Heny Holt and Company Inc
ISBN 0805016031   Year 1992
Age Adult   Pages 429
Description Printed dustjacket
  
The popular image of Daniel Boone is that of an unlettered backwoodsman, skilled hunter and Indian fighter. But evidence argues that he was reasonably well educated for his time and place, that he was a landowner, businessman and a respected leader of frontier society. Faragher, history professor at Mount Holyoke College, has sifted through folklore and fact to reconstruct a realistic portrait of Boone and the expanding frontier. 

Except for his long hunts, Boone was surrounded by a close, extended family; his deepest loyalties were to clan and community. The final chapters examine Boone in folklore, literature and art (he was the model for James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo in Last of the Mohicans). Boone is worthy of historical attention as a personification of the westward movement.
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer