Daniel Boone Book Reviews
Daniel Boone by Reuben Gold Thwaites Book Summary
Poets, historians, and orators have for a hundred years sung the praises of Daniel Boone as the typical backwoodsman of the trans-Alleghany region. Despite popular belief, he was not really the founder of Kentucky. Other explorers and hunters had been there long before him; he himself was piloted through Cumberland Gap by John Finley; and he was not even the first permanent settlement in Kentucky, for Harrodsburg preceded it by nearly a year; his services in defense of the West, during nearly a half-century of border warfare, were not comparable to those of George Rogers Clark or Benjamin Logan; as a commonwealth builder, he was surpassed by several. Nevertheless, Boone's picturesque career possesses a romantic and even pathetic interest that can never fail to charm the student of history. He was great as a hunter, explorer, surveyor, and land pilot—probably he found few equals as a rifleman; no man on the border knew Indians more thoroughly or fought them more skilfully than he; his life was filled to the brim with perilous adventures. He was not a man of affairs, he did not understand the art of money-getting, and he lost his lands because, although a surveyor, he was careless of legal forms of entry. He fled before the advance of the civilization which he had ushered in: from Pennsylvania, wandering with his parents to North Carolina in search of broader lands; thence into Kentucky because the Carolina borders were crowded; then to the Kanawha Valley, for the reason that Kentucky was being settled too fast to suit his fancy; lastly to far-off Missouri, in order, as he said, to get "elbow room." Experiences similar to his have made misanthropes of many another man—like Clark, for instance; but the temperament of this honest, silent, nature-loving man only mellowed with age; his closing years were radiant with the sunshine of serene content and the dimly appreciated consciousness of world-wide fame; and he died full of years, in the heart a simple hunter to the last—although he had also served with credit as magistrate, soldier, and legislator. At his death, the Constitutional Convention of Missouri went into mourning for twenty days, and the State of Kentucky claimed his bones, and has erected over them a suitable monument.
Book Name | Daniel Boone |
Genre | Classics |
Author | Reuben Gold Thwaites |
Published | 24 November 2023, Friday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 1.75 MB |
Daniel Boone (Reuben Gold Thwaites) Book Reviews 2024
We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!
Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!
Download Link | Book Format |
daniel-boone-ebook.pdf | |
daniel-boone-ebook.epub | EPUB |
daniel-boone-ebook.kindle | KINDLE |
Daniel Boone E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download
Daniel Boone ebook daniel-boone (1.75 MB) download new links will be update!
Daniel Boone Similar Books
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
David Copperfield | 4.5/5 | 1,492 | Free |
Dracula | 4.5/5 | 8,052 | Free |
The Ugly Duckling | 4/5 | 21,472 | Free |
Think and Grow Rich | 4/5 | 2,967 | Free |
The Count of Monte Cristo | 4.5/5 | 2,450 | Free |
Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Chronicles of Border Warfare | 0/5 | 0 | $0.99 |
Afloat on the Ohio | 0/5 | 0 | $9.99 |
Works of Reuben Gold Thwaites | 0/5 | 0 | $2.99 |
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXVII | 0/5 | 0 | Free |
Afloat on the Ohio | 0/5 | 0 | Free |
Summary of Daniel Boone by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Daniel Boone book written by Reuben Gold Thwaites was published on 24 November 2023, Friday in the Classics category. A total of 108 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
Book Name | Author | Price |
The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems | Geoffrey Chaucer | Free |
The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | Free |
By the Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Free |
The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | Free |
The Plague | Albert Camus | Free |
Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!
Book Name | Author | Price |
The First Four Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder | $6.99 |
The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | $0.99 |
Heretics of Dune | Frank Herbert | $9.99 |
Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | $18.99 |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | $9.99 |
Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.
Please wait! Daniel Boone book comments loading...
Reuben Gold Thwaites - Daniel Boone Discussions & Comments
Have you read this book yet? What do you think about Daniel Boone by Reuben Gold Thwaites book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about Daniel Boone!