Boone: A Biography | Robert Morgan

Boone: A Biography | Robert Morgan | An excellent account of the man and the legend

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Boone: A Biography

	Boone: A Biography Robert Morgan A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2007 - 538 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This commanding biography from New York Times bestselling author Robert Morgan transforms a mythic American hero?a legend in his own time?into a flesh-and-blood man.Morgan's sweeping biography of Daniel Boone is the story of America?its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. It is the most comprehensive book ever written about the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary?an American icon for more than two hundred years.

Born in 1734, Boone participated in the colonization of North America, the settling of the Middle Plain, the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, the election of his friend as the first president of the United States, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Westward Expansion. Unlike others of his time, he had a reverence for the Indians, who taught him how to hunt, navigate, and survive in the impenetrable wilderness. He accomplished feat after impossible feat yet was also accused of treason, fraud, hypocrisy; was court-martialed; and was sued for debt again and again. By the end of his life, most of his land claims had been lost to lawyers, politicians, and better businessmen than he.

Extensive endnotes, fascinating cultural and historical background material, maps, illustrations, and an index underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work by a writer who, like novelist-turned- historian Shelby Foote, has the talent and the knowledge to make this legendary American come vividly to life.

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Boone

Absolutely loved the book. It is the best Boone biography I have read yet.

An excellent account of the man and the legend

This is a fine historical account of an American legend that really personalizes the man beind the legend. The scope of his life and his extended family are amazing. An entertaining, informative and enjoyable book.

Frontier Life

An over long development of the life of a very significant figure in American (Kentucky) history. Speculation as to Boone's thoughts and feelings while traveling the wilderness alone are pure nonsense. Division of labor, Boone was the hunter, hence the other members of the community depended upon his skills for meat. It doesn't take but a few months for wildlife to flee from an area when humans invade their territory.
One of the funniest bits for me was when Morgan discussed the pollution of the Ohio river. In the 1750s? Bambi should not have pissed in the river.
Extract historical fact from a modern tendency to humanize personages in terms of current concepts and this could be a valuable book. For Boone and his contemporaries the essence of their lives was survival.
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