Olive Boone

Author : Darren R. Reid
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453893
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier written by Darren R. Reid and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of first-hand accounts that illuminate life on America's trans-Appalachian frontier. The voices range from the legendary Daniel Boone (here, in its entirety, is Boone's autobiography) to a wide array of ordinary settlers, and many of the stories are published here for the first time. Also included are historical and analytical essays that give context to each story, and numerous maps and illustrations.

Author : Greta Russell
Publisher : Truman State University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612481191
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olive Boone written by Greta Russell and published by Truman State University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman living on the Missouri frontier in the early 1800s, Olive Boone faced many challenges we cannot imagine today. While her husband was away on hunting and trading trips, she raised their fourteen children alone while also maintaining her family's farm. At the time, many people thought women were not as strong or as talented as men. But Olive Boone showed she was as good as any man. She helped her family survive and prosper on the dangerous American frontier.

Author : Neal O. Hammon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143993
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father, Daniel Boone written by Neal O. Hammon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous figures of the American frontier, Daniel Boone clashed with the Shawnee and sought to exploit the riches of a newly settled region. Despite Boone's fame, his life remains wrapped in mystery.The Boone legend, which began with the publication of John Filson's The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone and continued through modern times with Fess Parker's Daniel Boone television series, has become a hopeless mix of fact and fiction. Born in 1819, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we do know about Boone. Particularly interested in frontier history, Draper conducted interviews with the famous and the obscure and collected thousands of manuscripts (he walked hundreds of miles through the South to save historical materials during the Civil War). In an 1851 visit with Boone's youngest son, Nathan, and Nathan's wife, Olive, Draper produced over three hundred pages of notes that became the most important source of information about Daniel. The interviews provide a wealth of accurate, first-hand information about Boone's years in Kentucky, his capture by Indians, his defense of Fort Boonesboro, his lengthy hunting expeditions, and his final years in Missouri. My Father, Daniel Boone is an engaging account of one of America's great pioneers, in which Nathan makes a point of separating fact from fiction. From explaining the methods his father used to track game to detailing how land speculation and legal problems from title claims caused Boone to leave Kentucky and take up residence farther west, Nathan Boone's portrait of his father brings a crucial period in frontier history to life.

Author : Margot Ford McMillen
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 082626364X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Called to Courage written by Margot Ford McMillen and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are many accessible biographies of important Missouri men, there are few such biographies of Missouri women, which might suggest that they did not count in history. This book, written by a mother-and-daughter team, helps to correct that misconception by tracing the lives of four women who played important roles in their eras. These women were exceptional because they had the courage to make the best of their abilities, forging trails and breaking the barriers that separated women's spheres from those of men. Using Missouri and Illinois archives, Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson describe the lives of both women and men, showing how roles changed as Missouri and America matured. This book will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's history or Missouri history. Book jacket.

Author : Tony Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195139895
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Music Records written by Tony Russell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. Until now, discographies of pre-World War II country music recordings were only to be found scattered in journals and fanzines, or in books devoted to single artists. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. In doing so it tells the commercial story of the music's first two decades. From the first recordings of country music, this discography documents--in alphabetical order by artist--every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides, and indicates, as completely as possible, the musicians playing at every session, as well as instrumentation. This massive undertaking encompasses 2,500 artists, 5,000 session musicians, and 10,000 songs. An introduction explains how to use the book, research methodology, and editorial policy; summary histories of each key record company are also provided, along with a bibliography. The discography includes indexes to all song titles and musicians listed. Country Music Records is an indispensable resource for anyone seriously interested in early country music recordings.

Author : Lyman Copeland Draper
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811709798
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Daniel Boone written by Lyman Copeland Draper and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draper, the first secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, collected more than 500 volumes of material on the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. His biography of Boone remained unfinished for 100 years until Ted Franklin Belue, a widely read scholar of early Americana, added his authoritative editing. This long-awaited work is filled with little-known information on Boone and his family, long hunters, the Shawnee, the fur trade, and frontier life in general.

Author : Robert Morgan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565126548
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boone written by Robert Morgan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years—a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.

Author : Peter Houston
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811715225
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone written by Peter Houston and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written in 1842 as a letter in response to a request from the author's grandson, this work recounts the life and experiences of Daniel Boone.

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826213181
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nathan Boone and the American Frontier written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000-09-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in much the same steps as his famous father. In Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, R. Douglas Hurt presents for the first time the life of this important frontiersman. Based on primary collections, newspaper articles, government documents, and secondary sources, this well-crafted biography begins with Nathan's childhood in present-day Kentucky and Virginia and then follows his family's move to Missouri. Hurt traces Boone's early activities as a hunter, trapper, and surveyor, as well as his leadership of a company of rangers during the War of 1812. After the war, Boone returned to survey work. In 1831, he organized another company of rangers for the Black Hawk War and returned to military life, making it his career. The remainder of the book recounts Boone's activities with the army in Iowa and the Indian Territory, where he was the first Boone to gain notice outside Missouri or Kentucky. Even today his work is recognized in the form of state parks, buildings, and place-names. Although Nathan Boone was an important figure, he lived much of his life in the shadow of his father. R. Douglas Hurt, however, makes a strong case for Nathan's contribution to the larger context of life in the American backcountry, especially the execution of military and Indian policy and the settlement of the frontier. By recognizing the significant role that Nathan Boone played, Nathan Boone and the American Frontier also provides the recognition due the many unheralded frontiersmen who helped settle the West. Anyone with an interest in the history of Missouri, the frontier, or the Boone name will find this book informative and compelling.

Author : Lawrence Knorr
Publisher : Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0976092549
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pennsylvania Relations of Dwight D. Eisenhower written by Lawrence Knorr and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight David Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Denison, Texas. His parents were David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado.