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    Boone: A Biography
    Boone: A Biography
    Boone: A Biography
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    Boone: A Biography

    Written by Robert Morgan

    Narrated by James Jenner

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    About this audiobook

    Robert Morgan's Gap Creek was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a phenomenal New York Times best-seller. Here he turns his talent to chronicling the life of American frontier legend Daniel Boone. "[An] absorbing and stirring chronicle of the great frontiersman."-Booklist, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 9, 2009
    ISBN9781436185028
    Boone: A Biography
    Author

    Robert Morgan

    Robert Morgan is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography (2007), winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful book. It gave me an appreciation of what the settlement of Kentucky and then Missouri was like and the very important role played by Daniel Boone. In particular it gave us a complete biography of the great man and his foibles and challenges. This is how biographies should be written.

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    • 5/5
      Great book! I learned so much about the hardships that are not know about his life! The bear grease podcast recommended this book and I am glad they did!

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    • 4/5
      5753. Boone A Biography, by Robert Morgan (read 5 Aug 2021) This a carefully researched biography, published in 2008. One gets the idea that many earlier biographies of Daniel Boone are not very reliable. Daniel was born 2 Nov 1734. His exciting life is well-told, including much interaction with Indians. In fact was captured by Indians and lied with them, rather contentedly, for a time till he escaped. One gets the idea that Boone was primarily contending with the Indians, who were more or less allied with the British and the Indians were dismayed hat when the Peace treaty was entered into the British gave the territory east of the Mississippi to the United States without clearing the doing so with their Indian allies. Boone was usually in debt, he being a poor record keeper and easy to take advantage of. The book is sometimes exciting but there are many non-exciting pages. There 8 counties named Boone but Arkansas says their Boone County was not named for Daniel but to lead folk to think living in the county would be a "boon"--though if that is true why is it spelled with an "e" ?
    • 4/5
      I read a lot of biographies, partially because I am of the opinion that in many cases, history can best be learned by an examination of the key actors of a period. That is very much the case in this biography of Daniel Boone, the seminal figure in the westward expansion of the United States from 1750-1820. I can safely say that prior to reading this book, my knowledge of Daniel Boone consisted of the Fess Parker television series, and much of that was inaccurate.I can’t say that the writing was of the caliber of other biographies I’ve read by such authors as David McCollough or Walter Isaacson, but it was certainly readable. In my opinion, the author engages in too much speculation and “mind-reading” in attempting to paint a picture of Boone to his liking, instead of presenting the facts and allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions. Hagiography is a common problem when reading biographies, and the author here is no exception. His attempt to equate Boone to such personalities as Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson and other naturalists of the era are a stretch at best, and unnecessary to appreciate Boone for what he actually was. All in all, a good but not great biography, but very helpful in learning and understanding the period in question.
    • 3/5
      Boone offers a fairly interesting and comprehensive biography of the legendary American frontiersmen, Daniel Boone. Particularly interesting are the moments when the author digs into Boone's family life with his wife and children. They accompanied the famed hunter and pushed the boundaries of colonial America farther and farther west, into Kentucky and eventually Missouri. An avid hunter who was famous for his good relations with various Indian tribes, Boone seemed in the vanguard when it came to the westward expansion. And in a real sense he was responsible for helping to destroy the wilderness that he cherished. A fact that the author does not gloss over. Boone is an interesting account of one of our most famous early settlers and a good jumping off point for those who don't know much about him.
    • 4/5
      This book was provided a lot of good information. I learned a lot from the book, and would reccommend it. It does a good job of portraying the life of Daniel Boone, and the research involved is impressive. My main dislike of the book is the suppositions the author uses. There are many instances where he saus that he can imagine Boone thinking, or doing something. He has no facts showing that Boone did these things, but the author believe it likely. I would tend to agree with him that there is a good chance that he was right. I just do not care for that conjecture to be in books. Overall a pretty good book. It is well worth the read if you have limited knowledge concerning Daniel Boone.
    • 5/5
      Morgan provides a new and brilliant insight to one of America's great pioneers. This well-researched and highly readable and entertaining story of a man whose real life falliblities debunk the mythical superman status that Daniel Boone gained in American folk lore. A wanderer, explorer, and hunter, Boone often left his family for years at a time, hated conflict, and was not over responsible in looking after the more mundane things in life such as defend oneself in lawsuits, paying debts, etc. It is the best biography that I have read about Daniel Boone
    • 5/5
      A rollicking good read.