Daniel Boone, Stewart Edward White
Daniel Boone, Stewart Edward White
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Daniel Boone
Wilderness Scout

Author: Stewart Edward White

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2017


Synopsis

One of the most famous pioneers in United States history, Daniel Boone (1734–1820) spent most of his life exploring and settling the American frontier. He was instrumental in finding and improving the first wilderness trails between the Carolinas and the west, allowing for the settlement of Kentucky. Later in his life, Boone moved his family west again, leading hundreds of settlers to new homes in Missouri.Boone had numerous encounters with the Shawnee nation in Kentucky. In 1776, Shawnee warriors kidnapped his daughter and two other girls, sending Boone to their rescue. In 1778, Boone was captured by another band of Shawnee, and learned that the nation was planning an attack on Boonesborough. He negotiated a settlement with Chief Blackfish to prevent it. Eventually, the Shawnee came to admire Boone so much for his skill as a hunter and woodsman that they adopted him into their tribe as a son.

About Stewart Edward White

American writer STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873–1946) wrote of his own wilderness adventures in The Claim Jumpers and The Blazed Trail. His historical novels include Gold, The Gray Dawn, and The Rose Dawn.

About Raymond Todd

Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York.


Reviews

Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout Simply superb. A must read for all fans of the early frontier. Daniel Boons was a one of a kind who not only blazed a trail through the wilderness but, was a states man and exceptional Indian fighter. Cheated out of his rightfully homesteads on several occasions by unsc......more

Goodreads review by Julian

Great delve into a cool time period. Very interesting approach to writing non-fiction (as an intermittent narrative with a protagonist). They kiss the dudes ass a little too much.......more

Goodreads review by Tracy

Interesting history, but written in the 1920s, so not so PC......more


Quotes

“The presentation is excellent…the narrator’s style is relaxed and holds the listener’s attention.” AudioFile