Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and The Strange Fate of His Remains

Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and The Strange Fate of His Remains
Author: Ted Franklin Belue
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467145882

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.

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 Hunters of Kentucky

The Hunters of Kentucky
Author: Ted Franklin Belue
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0811731197

• Covers the American invasion and settling of the Kentucky frontier • Includes such frontier personalities as Daniel Boone, John Redd, Michael Cassidy, and Nicholas Cresswell The Hunters of Kentucky covers a wide range of frontier existence, from daily life and survival to wars, exploits, and even flora and fauna. the pioneers and their lives are profiled in biographical sketches, giving a rich sampling of the personalities involved in the United States' westward expansion. Author Ted Franklin Belue's colorful, vivid prose brings these long-forgotten frontiersmen to life.

Boone

Boone
Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2008-09-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1565126548

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years—a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.

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.

The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone

The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781426301452

Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.

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.

The Long Hunt

The Long Hunt
Author: Ted Franklin Belue
Publisher:
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780811709682

Folklore, archaeological data, and first-person narratives contrast the wanton destruction of the eastern buffalo with the spirit and heroism of the early frontier.

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.