978-0-89587-308-8
0-89587-308-7
$14.95 paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
186 pages
black-and-white photos, index
Press Release (PDF)
Author Photo (JPG)
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As the theme song
from the 1960's television show phrased it, "Daniel Boone was a man/
Yes, a big man." Now, the truth behind the legend can be
explored as the reader follows Boone as he leads the expansion of
America's frontier. From his birthplace in Pennsylvania to his final
resting place in Missouri, this combination travel guide/ history book
allows the reader to actually walk where Boone walked.
From Pennsylvania, his family moved south through Virginia and into North
Carolina, where Boone married Rebecca Bryan and where he lived and hunted
for almost two decades. During the late 1700's Boone and others
began exploring the western side of the Appalachians. He engaged in
along hunting expeditions into Tennessee and Kentucky, was captured and
escaped from Indians several times, marked the Wilderness Trail through
the Cumberland Gap, erected a stockade at Boonesborough, Kentucky, and
fought the American Revolution on the western front.
Even before Kentucky became a state, his frontier exploits earned him
international fame, yet he lost all of his land holdings because of title
disputes,. Seeking a new frontier, Boone moved to Missouri, where he
lived until his death in 1820, just short of 86.
This book elaborates on the basic facts and tells the fascinating stories
connected to the various sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, as well as locations in Maryland,
West Virginia, Michigan, and Florida.
about the author
Born in Arkansas and raised in Memphis, Randell Jones earned a degree in
civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jones lives in
Winston-Salem, NC, where he writes occasional history-themed columns for
the Winston-Salem Journal.
Other titles in “In the Footsteps”™ series:
In
the Footsteps of Robert E. Lee
0-89587-235-8
$12.95 paperback
In
the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson
0-89587-244-7
$12.95 paperback
In the Footsteps
of J.E.B. Stuart
0-89587-261-7
$12.95 paperback
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