Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled with adventures and, with this biography, Reuben Gold Thwaites takes us along on some of those adventures. An exciting read of one of America’s true historical heroes.(Summary by William Tomcho from the preface to Daniel Boone)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Ancestry and Training
13:17 - Chapter 2
The Nimrod of the Yadkin
12:37 - Chapter 3
Life on the Border
12:43 - Chapter 4
Red Man Against White Man
22:09 - Chapter 5
Kentucky Reached at Last
17:59 - Chapter 6
Alone in the Wilderness
16:22 - Chapter 7
Predecessors and Contemporaries
13:41 - Chapter 8
The Hero of Clinch Valley
18:06 - Chapter 9
The Settlement of Kentucky
17:40 - Chapter 10
Two Years of Darkness
18:37 - Chapter 11
The Siege of Boonesborough
24:13 - Chapter 12
Soldier and Statesman
25:10 - Chapter 13
Kentucky's Path of Thorns
22:31 - Chapter 14
In the Kanawha Valley
13:57 - Chapter 15
A Serene Old Age
21:53