عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
F454.B66 B77 2008
F454
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B66
B77
2008
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0807133566 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780807133569 (cloth : alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b523901
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Frontiersman :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Daniel Boone and the making of America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Meredith Mason Brown.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Baton Rouge :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2008]
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 375 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Southern biography series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-356) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Old Boone -- Quakers in Pennsylvania, settlers in backcountry North Carolina -- Braddock's defeat: how not to fight Indians -- A good wife -- Long hunts -- Boone's first hunts in Kentucky -- Boone begins to open the wilderness: the first attempt to settle Kentucky -- Transylvania, the wilderness road, and the building of Boonesborough -- Dark and bloody ground: an introduction to Kentucky during the Revolutionary War -- The capture and rescue of the girls -- The Shawnees capture Boone -- Boone among the Shawnees -- The siege of Boonesborough -- Indian raids and the Battle of the Blue Licks -- White and Indians -- Trading and land speculation: master of all he surveyed? -- Living legend, shrinking fortune -- Out to Missouri -- Boone in Missouri -- Last days -- Life after death.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Boone, Daniel,1734-1820-- Influence.
Boone, Daniel,1734-1820-- Relations with Indians.
Boone, Daniel,1734-1820.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Explorers-- Kentucky, Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life-- Kentucky.
Frontier and pioneer life-- United States.
Pioneers-- Kentucky, Biography.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Kentucky, Discovery and exploration.
Missouri, Discovery and exploration.
United States, Territorial expansion.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
B
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
F454
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B66
Book number
B77
2008
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Brown, Meredith Mason,1940-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20081001104250.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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