title: Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
author:  John Mack Faragher 
description: The popular image of Daniel Boone is that of an unlettered backwoodsman, skilled hunter and Indian fighter. But evidence argues that he was reasonably well educated for his time and place, that he was a landowner, businessman and a respected leader of frontier society. Faragher, history professor at Mount Holyoke College, author of Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie , has sifted through folklore and fact to reconstruct a realistic portrait of Boone and the expanding frontier. Except for his long hunts, Boone was surrounded by a close, extended family; his deepest loyalties were to clan and community. The final chapters examine Boone in folklore, literature and art (he was the model for James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo in Last of the Mohicans ). Boone is worthy of historical attention as a personification of the westward movement. Faragher has written an absorbing, definitive biography. Photos not seen by PW. BOMC selection. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: # DANIEL BOONE
  
  THE
  
  PIONEER OF KENTUCKY.
  
  ### BY
  
  ## JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
  
  NEW YORK:
  
  DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.
  
  1872.
  
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  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
  
  DODD & MEAD,
  
  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
  
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  _AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS._
  
  DANIEL BOONE
  
  THE
  
  PIONEER OF KENTUCKY.
  
  BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
  
  ILLUSTRATED.
  
  > "His youth was innocent; his riper age,  
  >  Marked with some act of goodness every day;  
  >  And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage,  
  >  Faded his late declining years away.  
  >  Cheerful he gave his being up and went  
  >  To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent."  
  >
  
  NEW YORK:
  
  DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.
  
  1872.
  
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  ##  PREFACE.
  
  The name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in the annals of our country.
  And yet there are but few who are familiar with the events of his wonderful
  career, or who have formed a correct estimate of the character of the man.
  Many suppose 