My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813143996
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 04/06/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 1,044,224
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Neal O. Hammon is an architect and amateur historian. He is the co-author of Virginia's Western War: 1775-1786 and numerous articles on Kentucky history.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations viii

Preface ix

Genealogy of the Boone Family xii

Introduction Nelson L. Dawson 1

1 His Early Life 9

2 The Hunter 23

3 To Kentucky 39

4 Captured by Indians 53

5 Siege of Boonesboro 65

6 Bryan's Station and the Blue Licks Defeat 75

7 Point Pleasant 87

8 Back to Kentucky 101

9 To Missouri 107

10 Hunting in Missouri 119

11 The War of 1812 129

12 The Last Years 135

Appendix A Nathan Boone's Letter 141

Appendix B Family Genealogy 147

Postscript 149

Notes 153

Bibliography 169

Index 175

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