A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone

A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone
Author: Peter Houston
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811715225

Originally written in 1842 as a letter in response to a request from the author's grandson, this work recounts the life and experiences of Daniel Boone.

The Life of Daniel Boone

The Life of Daniel Boone
Author: Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811709798

Draper, the first secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, collected more than 500 volumes of material on the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. His biography of Boone remained unfinished for 100 years until Ted Franklin Belue, a widely read scholar of early Americana, added his authoritative editing. This long-awaited work is filled with little-known information on Boone and his family, long hunters, the Shawnee, the fur trade, and frontier life in general.

Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier

Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier
Author: Darren R. Reid
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786453893

This is a collection of first-hand accounts that illuminate life on America's trans-Appalachian frontier. The voices range from the legendary Daniel Boone (here, in its entirety, is Boone's autobiography) to a wide array of ordinary settlers, and many of the stories are published here for the first time. Also included are historical and analytical essays that give context to each story, and numerous maps and illustrations.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1993-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429997060

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.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone
Author: Michael Lofaro
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0813128862

" The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.

Daniel Boone Homestead

Daniel Boone Homestead
Author: Sharon Hernes Silverman
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811727327

A brief biography of Daniel Boone, with details on his youth in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania, and the history of the Homestead's later occupants, who reflect the diversity of European settlers in Colonial Pennsylvania. Concludes with a tour of the Boone House and other buildings on the grounds.

Finding Daniel Boone

Finding Daniel Boone
Author: Ted Franklin Belue
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 143967132X

Follow the final days of an American frontier icon as a historian examines what happened to him after he died. Finding Daniel Boone is a unique tribute to America’s frontier hero and offers closure to the greatest of all his mysteries: where he was buried. Part biography, part historical travelogue, and eloquently narrated using fresh sources, rare forensic data, and new field interviews, this is more than just a search for a man’s bones. Fully re-creating Daniel’s lost world, noted historian and author Ted Franklin Belue journeys along the famous Pathfinder’s last trail, from Missouri and back to Kentucky, meeting a host of colorful characters. As little has been written about Boone’s western days, where he lived the longest, this work examines the legendary woodsman’s life as much as his death. “With vivid writing, and ample historic documentation, Ted Franklin Belue invites readers on an incredible journey that introduces them to a new slant on an old story about one of the greatest American frontier heroes. Belue tirelessly re-creates Boone’s lost world and follows his last trail in the year of his death’s bicentennial, teasing us with a provocative question: Where does Daniel Boone rest, in Missouri or Kentucky?” —KYForward

The 17th and 18th Centuries

The 17th and 18th Centuries
Author: Frank N. Magill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3274
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 113592421X

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.