Daniel Boone (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Mason Brown
- First Published: 1952
- Time of Work: 1755–1820
- Setting: North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri
- Principal Characters: Daniel Boone, General Edward Braddock, Rebecca Boone, Squire Boone, John Finley, Jemima Boone, Blackfish, Colonel David Williamson, Simon Girty
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Native Americans or American Indians, War, Eighteenth century, Adventure, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Exploration or explorers, Scouts or scouting
- Locales: Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri
Form and Content
John Mason Brown’s Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness is a fancifully illustrated biography that serves young readers as a guide to the remarkable, dangerous frontier life led by one of the most lauded of all American pioneers: the trailblazer and Indian fighter Daniel Boone. This tale relates the exploits of one restless man who took his kinspeople and a handful of North Carolina mountain neighbors to the fledgling United States’ own version of the biblical Promised Land: Kentucky and the lands in the West. The action in Daniel Boone...
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