Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America
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Brown, Meredith M.
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008].
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Book
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xxii, 375 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008].
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-341) and index.
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Supported with copious maps, illustrations, endnotes, and a detailed chronology of Boone's life, Frontiersman provides a fresh and accurate rendering of a man most people know only as a folk hero--and of the nation that has mythologized him for over two centuries.

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Biographies.
Boone, Daniel, -- 1734-1820 -- Influence.
Boone, Daniel, -- 1734-1820 -- Relations with Indians.
Boone, Daniel, -- 1734-1820.
Explorers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Kentucky -- Discovery and exploration.
Missouri -- Discovery and exploration.
Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
United States -- Territorial expansion.