Boone
A Biography

BOONE was a fascinating read, and offered many things I look for in a great biography: insight, understanding of why the subject is worth knowing, human perspective, and historical perspective, all in a narrative that flows like a good story. Robert Morgan, more known for his fiction, has accomplish......more

What strikes me as the greatest accomplishment of Robert Morgan in this biography of Daniel Boone is stripping away the myth and describing the person. Boone himself was a complex figure. He was a great success as a trapper and explorer. He routinely failed as a businessman and land speculator. He w......more

Travel Wilderness Road and spend some time in dangerous places with Daniel Boone in Boone: A Biography. With a cradle-to-grave biography that reaches beyond the life of its subject on both ends, Robert Morgan covers everything, both factual and dubious. Morgan establishes early that Boone’s legends a......more

A dense and well-researched book, but this is more about Daniel Boone, the legend, than it is about Daniel Boone, the man. It lacks the historical context of Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier, and I had trouble sorting out what was presented as fact or ficti......more

I'm not sure what I was expecting from a biography of Daniel Boone, but I never got too close. The author argued, perhaps correctly, that Boone is a sort of Rorschach of the American psyche, and will always be mysterious, but it also feels like he didn't even really try. Honestly, too, I had a hard t......more