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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for Americas First Frontier (Large Print)

Hardback

Main Details

Title Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for Americas First Frontier (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bob Drury
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:623
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 145
Category/GenreLarge Print
Thorndike Press
All Dates
Non-Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781432886592
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Thorndike Press
Imprint Thorndike Press
NZ Release Date 21 April 2021
Publication Country United States

Description

The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for Americas frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North Americas First Frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is Americas first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone--not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and red, who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over Americas First Frontier that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.