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Daniel Boone

Reuben Gold Thwaites

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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.
gomery desperately beat his way to a level tract, but in the night hastily 46 withdrew, and did not stop until he reached Charleston. Despite the entreaties of the Assembly, he at once retired to the North with his little army, and left the frontiers of Carolina open to the assaults of the merciless foe.

The siege of Fort Loudon was now pushed by the Cherokees with vigor. It had already withstood several desperate and protracted assaults. But the garrison contrived to exist for several months, almost wholly upon the active sympathy of several Indian women who were married to frontiersmen shut up within the walls. The dusky wives frequently contrived to smuggle food into the fort despite the protests of the Indian leaders. Women, however, despite popular notions to the contrary, have a powerful influence in Indian camps; and they but laughed the chiefs to scorn, saying that they would suffer death rather than refuse assistance to their white husbands.

This relief, however, furnished but a precarious existence. Receiving no help from the settlements, which were cut off from communication with them, and weak from irregular 47 food, the garrison finally surrendered on promise of a safe-conduct to their fellows in the East. Early in the morning of August ninth they marched out—men, women, and children to the number of several hundred—leaving behind them their cannon, ammunition, and spare arms. The next day, upon their sorry march, they were set upon by a bloodthirsty mob of seven hundred Cherokees. Many were killed outright, others surrendered merely to meet torture and death. Finally, after several hours of horror, a friendly chief succeeded, by browbeating his people and by subterfuge, in saving the lives of about two hundred persons, who in due time and after great su

Avis 11/19/2020
Informative and judicious (the author is an expert in the history of this period) but rather bloodless.
Jake 04/07/2020
Decent enough read, but the footnotes seemed to cite primary sources only a handful of times so it's questionable where some of the material actually came from. I wanted to check the veracity of some of the facts presented, but feel like this aspect fell short.
Lexy 02/17/2020
I thought this book was okay
Pam 09/11/2019
Great book
Todd Weatherford 10/16/2015
Okay book I wished for more details of Daniel Boone.

I chooser the rating because of not much details in the book.

But it got interesting at the end of the book.
Nicole 09/03/2012
Very informative book. I was surprised that so many of the 'facts' about Daniel Boone that were used in television and the movies were known to be false in 1902 when the book was published.

I'm kind of shocked that he detested the famed 'coon skin cap' that was supposed to be his trademark.

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