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For readers who love frontier adventure, early American history, and stories of one person's life, with wilderness survival, courage, and endurance at their heart.
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Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky is a short biography of the hunter and trailblazer who opened the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains to American settlers. It was written by John S. C. Abbott, a minister and prolific popular historian of the nineteenth century, for his series of lives of American pioneers and patriots. Abbott wrote for ordinary readers and for young people, and he wanted them to see how one steady man crossed a wilderness and helped build a country.
The book follows Boone from a Pennsylvania farm boyhood to his old age in Missouri. You meet the long hunts in unmapped forest, the road cut through Cumberland Gap, the fort at Boonesborough, a captivity among the Shawnee, and the bitter losses that came with success. Abbott tells it as a story of courage and endurance. Let us begin where Boone did, as a boy who preferred the woods to the schoolroom.
En este resumen
- 1A boy who belonged in the woodsFree
- 2A trader's tale sends Boone west
- 3Grief and the road through the Gap
- 4Life in the fort and the rescue of three girls
- 5Captive among the Shawnee
- 6Losses, land troubles, and what lasted
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A boy who belonged in the woods
Daniel Boone was born in 1734 in Pennsylvania, into a large Quaker family of farmers and craftsmen. Abbott shows him as a boy who learned early to track animals, shoot straight, and move quietly through forest. School mattered little to him, and he never gained much formal learning. The woods taught him patience, observation, and self-reliance.
When Daniel was a teenager, the family moved south to the Yadkin valley of North Carolina. The country there was still thinly settled, and game was plentiful. Boone spent long weeks away from home hunting deer and bear and selling the skins. These trips gave him a feel for distance, weather, and the habits of both animals and people in the backcountry.
In 1755 he served as a wagoner with the British army under General Braddock, which marched into the Pennsylvania wilderness to fight the French and their Indian allies. The army was badly beaten on the Monongahela River, and Boone escaped by cutting a horse loose from its wagon and riding away. Abbott treats the episode as his first lesson in how a European army could fail in a forest that a woodsman could survive.
Soon after, Boone married Rebecca Bryan and began raising a family. Abbott presents Rebecca as a patient, brave wife who bore long absences and frequent moves without bitterness. Farming never held Boone for long. He kept looking west, and the stories he heard from other hunters made that look sharper.
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Questions about Daniel Boone
What is Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky about?
It is a biography of Daniel Boone, the hunter and explorer who helped open Kentucky to settlers. It covers his boyhood, his journeys through Cumberland Gap, the founding of Boonesborough, his captivity among the Shawnee, and his later life.
Is Daniel Boone by John S. C. Abbott a true story?
Yes, it is a biography based on the real life of Daniel Boone. Abbott added dramatic color.
Who was Daniel Boone?
Daniel Boone was an American frontiersman born in 1734. He explored Kentucky, marked the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap, helped found Boonesborough, and later moved to Missouri, where he died in 1820.
Why was Daniel Boone called Sheltowee?
Sheltowee is the name the Shawnee gave Boone when Chief Blackfish adopted him after his capture in 1778. It is usually explained as meaning Big Turtle. The adoption helped Boone live among them until he could escape.
Is Abbott's Daniel Boone hard to read?
No. Abbott wrote for general readers and young people, with plain narrative and short episodes.