02649cam a2200373 i 4500 501386988 TxAuBib 20210506120000.0 201102s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250247131 1250247136 TxAuBib rda Drury, Bob. Blood and treasure [ANF] : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. xi, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet. The guide to this epic narrative is none other than 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, white and Native American, 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".-- Provided by publisher. 20210506. Boone, Daniel 1734-1820. Pioneers Kentucky Biography. Explorers Kentucky Biography. Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815. Frontier and pioneer life Kentucky. Frontier and pioneer life United States. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography. United States Territorial expansion. TXGPL