{"product_id":"daniel-boone","title":"Daniel Boone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeyond the Appalachian Mountains, a hunter follows the promise of Kentucky into a life of danger, endurance, and loss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Daniel Boone, John S. C. Abbott follows a Pennsylvania farm boy who prefers the woods to the schoolroom. Boone learns to track animals and move quietly through forest. Then trader John Finley tells him of Kentucky: rolling land, cane thickets, salt springs, and herds of buffalo and deer. The country beyond the mountains draws him west.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong hunts in unmapped forest lead toward the road through Cumberland Gap and the watchful life of Boonesborough. Families seek a place to settle, but danger shadows their hopes. Abbott tells Boone’s life as a story of courage and endurance, shaped by a nineteenth-century moral outlook. It is an absorbing frontier biography, though not a balanced account of Native American perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA boy of the woods\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet the young Boone as he learns the skills that shape his life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKentucky through Finley’s eyes\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover the trader’s vivid account of a country that draws Boone toward the wilderness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA road through mountains\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow the trail through Cumberland Gap, where hopes of settlement meet the demands of wilderness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLife behind fort walls\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter Boonesborough, where settlers farm near the walls and hunt in small groups.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCourage with a cost\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore a life in which endurance and achievement stand beside bitter personal losses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy frontier adventure, early American history, and old-fashioned storytelling about one person’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and meet Boone where his story begins: in the Pennsylvania woods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534772830556,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/10705_en_ebook-front_c17.jpg?v=1792175201","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/daniel-boone-de","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}