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Author Boone, Nathan, 1781-1856.

Title My father, Daniel Boone : the Draper interviews with Nathan Boone / edited by Neal O. Hammon ; with an introduction by Nelson L. Dawson
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Nelson L. Dawson -- 1. His Early Life -- 2. The Hunter -- 3. To Kentucky -- 4. Captured by Indians -- 5. Siege of Boonesboro -- 6. Bryan's Station and the Blue Licks Defeat -- 7. Point Pleasant -- 8. Back to Kentucky -- 9. To Missouri -- 10. Hunting in Missouri -- 11. The War of 1812 -- 12. The Last Years -- App. A. Nathan Boone's Letter -- App. B. Family Genealogy
Summary Born in 1815, archivist Lyman Draper was a tireless collector of oral history and is responsible for much of what we know about Daniel Boone. 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 concerning 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
Notes Lyman Draper's 1851 interviews with Nathan and Olive Boone
Genealogical tables on endpapers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index
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Subject Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
Boone, Nathan, 1781-1856 -- Interviews
Boone, Olive Van Bibber, 1783-1858 -- Interviews
SUBJECT Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 fast
Boone, Nathan, 1781-1856 fast
Boone, Olive Van Bibber, 1783-1858 fast
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. sears
Boone, Olive Van Bibber, 1783-1858. sears
Subject Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Pioneers
Pioneers -- Biography.
SUBJECT Kentucky -- Biography
Kentucky -- Biography
Subject Kentucky
Kentucky -- Biography.
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Interviews
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Boone, Olive Van Bibber, 1783-1858.
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891.
Hammon, Neal O
LC no. 99019263
ISBN 9780813143989
0813143985
9780813143996
0813143993
1299276989
9781299276987