Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
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"[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.

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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
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.

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250247155
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/15/2022
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 5.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
BOB DRURY, the recipient of several national journalism awards, is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist as well as a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Drury honed his investigative skills writing for all four New York City newspapers as well as a variety of national publications. His journalism career has arced from sports to crime to adventure travel to foreign correspondence. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of more than ten non-fiction books, including Blood and Treasure, Valley Forge, and Lucky 666.

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure, The Last Hill, and Throne of Grace with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

PART I: The Frontier

CHAPTER 1: A Patient Pathfinder

CHAPTER 2: “The Single Nation to Fear”

CHAPTER 3: The Long Hunters

CHAPTER 4: Into the Yadkin

CHAPTER 5: The Ohio Country

CHAPTER 6: Kanta-Ke

CHAPTER 7: Braddock’s Folly

CHAPTER 8: Rebecca Bryan

CHAPTER 9: The Cherokee Wars

CHAPTER 10: “Boone’s Surprise”

PART II: The Explorers

CHAPTER 11: Pontiac’s Rebellion

CHAPTER 12: “An Execrable Race”

CHAPTER 13: By Royal Proclamation

CHAPTER 14: The Gap

CHAPTER 15: The Warrior’s Path

CHAPTER 16: “Without Even A Horse or a Dog”

CHAPTER 17: “A Second Paradise”

CHAPTER 18: Cold Rain Mixed With the Tears

PART III: The Settlers

CHAPTER 19: A White Invasion

CHAPTER 20: Lord Dunmore’s War

CHAPTER 21: Logan’s Lament

CHAPTER 22: Boone’s Trace

CHAPTER 23: A New World

CHAPTER 24 – Revolution

CHAPTER 25: Kidnapped

CHAPTER 26: An Indian Army

CHAPTER 27: Abandoned Settlements

CHAPTER 28: “The Best Little Indian Fight”

PART IV: The Conquest

CHAPTER 29: Taken

CHAPTER 30: Sheltowee

CHAPTER 31: A Mistrusted Hero

CHAPTER 32: Prelude To a Siege

CHAPTER 33: A Haze of Stinking Sulfurous Smoke

CHAPTER 34: “Widder-Makers”

CHAPTER 35: War In the West

CHAPTER 36: Boone’s Station

CHAPTER 37: The Moravian Massacre

CHAPTER 38: Death at Blue Licks

CHAPTER 39: ‘Blood and Treasure’

EPILOGUE

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