Daniel Boone, John Mack Faragher
Daniel Boone, John Mack Faragher
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Daniel Boone
The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

Author: John Mack Faragher

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/01/2008

Synopsis

In 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, while illuminating the American hero-making process itself. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone’s own hand, and a treasure trove of reminiscences 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.

About John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail, for which he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the acclaimed Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner, a professional actor, director, and teacher, has narrated over 650 audiobooks. He was named one of the Best Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine as well as a Golden Voice, and he has received over twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has also won two coveted Audie Awards, as well as being a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly named him Audiobook Narrator of the Year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard

When I studied Kentucky history in seventh grade, we of course spent some time on our state's first hero, Daniel Boone. I thought it would be interesting to read a real biography of Boone many years later to see how much I remembered. I had assumed that a lot of what I was taught as a twelve year ol......more

Goodreads review by Richard

There's so much good historical biography out there, and it seems to always be getting better. John Mack Faragher's "Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer" is a perfect example. This first paperback edition actually dates to 1993, but the professor of American History at Yale has......more

Goodreads review by Christopher

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." The quote from the classic John Ford western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" applies remarkably well to the life (and legend) of Daniel Boone. Faragher's 1993 biography does a fine job of separating fact from myth (or just from bad facts) in presen......more

Goodreads review by Todd

“Speaking of fabulous characters…we’ve managed to come up with a few of our own. How about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Johnny Appleseed, Black Bart, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone…” Thus elaborated the narrator Bing Crosby to the 1949 Disney animated feature “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad”. The i......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand I think it is well written and chocked full of details and accounts from numerous sources. I think the author does a good job of addressing the legend vs the man, while being respectful to both. He doesn’t gloss over character flaws and doesn’t over......more

Quotes

“A richly textured portrait of a fascinating, complex man…Faragher’s work is unique.” San Francisco Chronicle

“Boone is worthy of historical attention as a personification of the westward movement. Faragher has written an absorbing, definitive biography.” Publishers Weekly

“[Grover Gardner] reads this with a quiet voice, using a variety of expressions and intonations. Faragher’s story, combined with [Gardner’s] narration, aids in the digestion of this new insight into early American history.”  Library Journal

“Well written and immensely satisfying in several ways, this biography separates myth from fact while also showing that this is a man about whom legends have been made…Boone speaks to the American spirit in an elemental way that is wonderfully conveyed by this author, in a book that readers will find memorable.” School Library Journal

Awards

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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