Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432886592
- ISBN: 1432886592
- Physical Description: 623 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-620). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The frontier. A patient pathfinder ; "The single nation to fear" ; The long hunters ; Into the Yadkin ; The Ohio country ; Kanta-Ke ; Braddock's folly ; Rebecca Bryan ; The Cherokee wars ; "Boone's surprise" -- The explorers. "An execrable race" ; Pontiac's demise ; By royal proclamation ; The gap ; The warrior's path ; "Without...even a horse or a dog" ; "A second paradise" ; Cold rain mixed with the tears -- The settlers. A white invasion ; Lord Dunmore's war ; Logan's lament ; Boone's trace ; A new world ; Revolution ; Kidnapped ; An Indian army ; Abandoned settlements ; "The best little Indian fight" -- The conquest. Taken ; Shel-tow-ee ; A mistrusted hero ; Prelude to a siege ; A haze of stinking sulfurous smoke ; "Widder maker" ; War in the west ; Boone's station ; The Moravian massacre ; Death at Blue Licks ; "Blood and treasure" -- Epilogue. |
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Genre: | History. Large type books. Biographies. Biographies. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | LP 976.902 DRU (Text) | 000161211 | Large Print -- Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Blood and Treasure : Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Bob Drury is an American journalist and author who has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Darfur. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of nine nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestselling Halsey's Typhoon and Last Men Out. In 2015, his nonfiction book, The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend, also became a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)
Tom Clavin was born in the Bronx, New York. He is a bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. Two of his books have been New York Times best sellers, The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon. Other books that have received popular and critical acclaim include The DiMaggios, Last Men Out, Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, The Last Stand of Fox Company, and his most recent book, Reckless: The Racehorse Who Became a Marine Corps Hero.Two of his books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)