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Daniel Boone : the opening of the wilderness
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- Summary
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"More than a fresh life of Daniel Boone, this book gives a vivid picture of the dangers of the frontier, Indian and white treachery and massacres, and the struggle between the English and French."
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- Creator
- by John Mason Brown ; illustrated by Lee J. Ames
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Random House, ©1952
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00183704
- Imprisoned in a wagon -- How not to fight Indians -- More elbowroom -- History comes knocking -- The secret door -- The sting of wasps -- Alone in Kentucky -- The fire is lighted -- War on the frontier -- The Transylvania dream -- The storm breaks -- An eventful Sunday -- Captured by the Shawnees -- Chief Blackfish's "son" -- A summer of suspense -- Days of terror -- White man's cruelty -- Red man's torture -- Victory in defeat -- The land that wasn't his -- Hero's departure -- A new life and old troubles -- Heading west
Subjects
- Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
- Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Explorers -- Kentucky -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky -- Juvenile literature.
- Kentucky -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Kentucky -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.