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John Mack Faragher
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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429 |
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1992-11 |
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0805016031 |
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Henry Holt & Co |
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1.8 pounds |
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6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches |
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1st |
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2 Chris Lannin (USA: MN), Mark (USA: TX) |
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2 Mark (USA: TX), Miss Daisy (USA: TX) |
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Product Description
A biography of the legendary American frontier hero employs the methods of the new social history to address the relationship between indigenous and settling Americans, the contradictions of development and commercialism, and American nationalism. 15,000 first printing. BOMC & History Alt. Tour.
Amazon.com Review
The legend of the American frontier is largely the legend of a single individual, Daniel Boone, who looms over our folklore like a giant. Boone figures in other traditions as well: Goethe held him up as the model of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "natural man," and Lord Byron devoted several stanzas of his epic poem Don Juan to the frontiersman, calling Boone "happiest of mortals any where." But folklore is not history, and we are fortunate to have a reliable and factual life of Boone through the considerable efforts of John Mack Faragher. The contradictory admirer of Indians who participated in their destruction, the slaveholder who cherished liberty, the devoted family man who prized solitude and would disappear into the woods for years at a time--the real Boone is far more interesting than the mythical image, and in this book we finally catch sight of him.
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