Daniel Boone and the Struggle to Secure America's First Frontier: Blood and Treasure

The handsome cook: I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Daniel Boone and other frontiersmen. Its very well researched and hard to put down.

United States on Nov 29, 2023

eric lindlholm: This is about 10% Boone and 90% Indian history around the revolutionary war. Detailed to say the least, and extremely interesting.

United States on Nov 07, 2023

Tom Weikert: Alternately, the French, the British, and the Indians underestimated Daniel Boone and paid dearly for it. The pioneer and frontiersman explored what the American colonists referred to as "western Virginia colony," or by its Indian name, "Kan-ta-Kee." Settling this region, today Kentucky, West Virginia, and part of Ohio, brought early Americans in direct contact with Native tribes unwilling to share their ancestral lands. Moreover, the inevitable westward migration in the mid-1700s in quest of more space and fertile "bottomland" would result in many bloody clashes with indigenous Americans.

The authors vividly describe the pioneers' fraught experience as they pushed through the Allegheny mountains. However, these seemingly fearless people endured the many threats they faced with Daniel Boone as their most capable leader. As a hunter and Indian fighter, Boone had no equal. His physical and mental toughness was legendary.

For 30 years, Boone survived one brush with death after another as a “long-hunter” ranging far from home for months and sometimes years at a time. He made his living, we learn, from the sale of beaver pelts and deerskins collected on his extended...

United States on Dec 28, 2021

Volcan: A broad and compelling account of both characters and events which helped found our nation and push westward to the Mississippi. The roles played by indigenous people in our War of Independence were very enlightening as were the conflicts between Whites and Indians and the encroachments which pushed the Native American Population & Buffalo to their current states of existence. The cruelty of British Colonialists was repeated in Australia, India, South Africa & other countries worldwide and one gets the impression from this example alone that Royal standing as Lords, Dukes, Earls & Barons gave many airs of superiority and imbued in them disregard, disrespect and dehumanization of other races. Bounties for scalps and blankets infected with Smallpox are just 2 examples of tactics used by the British to accomplish their colonial aspirations.

United States on May 25, 2021

RTM: Daniel Boone is such a legendary figure that it difficult to separate fact from fiction about his life. The authors do an excellent job of this in their well-written and comprehensive biography. Boone played an important role in opening up to white settlers the "Frontier" at that time, what is now West Virginia, Kentucky, and part of Ohio. Native American tribes saw this as an invasion, and this book chronicles many of the resulting encounters. Sometimes negotiation kept the peace, but too often bloody warfare erupted, as both sides fought with a savagery that is hard to understand today. Boone was often in the thick of this, and had many close calls, including being captured. Boone's bravery and skills are well described. He represented the first wave of Westward moving American settlers who would eventually reach the Pacific. The authors do a good job of balancing the story of this expansion in the 1700s with the tragic fate of the Indian tribes that were often put in a no win situation.

United States on Apr 22, 2021