Daniel Boones Great Escape

Author : Michael P. Spradlin
Publisher : Walker Childrens
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone's Great Escape written by Michael P. Spradlin and published by Walker Childrens. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While out hunting buffalo one day, the great Wild West explorer Daniel Boone was captured by powerful Shawnee warriors. Enraged by the settlers' murder of one of their own, the Shawnee chief decided to take Boone hostage as revenge. Even though he was eventually adopted by the Shawnee and grew accustomed to their way of life, Boone was constantly concerned about the safety of his family and friends. So when he heard that the Shawnee were preparing to attack the settlers in an attempt to regain their land, Boone decided to escape. Over four long days, he navigated the cruel landscape—crossing wide rivers, hiding in tall grass or trees, covering his footsteps at every turn, and never looking back but all the while knowing that the angry warriors were in hot pursuit. This little-known episode from the life of one of our most famous Western heroes provides a balanced look at a difficult time in our history, while presenting a stunning act of courage that will keep young readers on the edge of their seats.

Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627931538
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Book of American History written by Edward Eggleston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250247144
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Treasure written by Bob Drury and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's 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 thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “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 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 America’s 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 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 America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Author : Matthew Pearl
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062937812
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taking of Jemima Boone written by Matthew Pearl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders’ leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good. With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone’s kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America’s westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue. In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.

Author : Edwin L. Sabin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy's Book of Frontier Fighters written by Edwin L. Sabin and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429997060
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone written by John Mack Faragher and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

Author : Timothy Flint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone written by Timothy Flint and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael P. Spradlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802780962
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Rangers written by Michael P. Spradlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed picture book brings to life the colorful history of the legendary lawmen who fought in the Revolutionary War, defended the Alamo, and crossed enemy lines, by tracing their very first skirmish to their role in modern-day Texas.

Author : Katharine Elliott Wilkie
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791014073
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone written by Katharine Elliott Wilkie and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the frontier hero who first explored Kentucky and later opened passages to the West.

Author : John Filson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke written by John Filson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: