num_pages: 464
description: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.
language: English
title: Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
titlecomplete: Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
characters: Daniel Boone
genres: Historical, American, History, Adventure, American History, American Revolution, Westerns, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 813
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Holt Paperbacks