Daniel Boone : the opening of the wilderness /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969.
Imprint:New York : Random House, [1952]
Description:181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Landmark books ; [21]
Landmark books ; [21].
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy is the Gift of Barbara and Bill Yoffee, AB '52, in original dust jacket.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9135499
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Other uniform titles:Barbara and Bill Yoffee Collection.
Summary:"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."
Other form:Online version: Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969. Daniel Boone. New York, Random House [1952]
Table of Contents:
  • 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.