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Frontispiece: Chester Harding, Daniel Boone, oil sketch portrait, 1820. Painted a few months before Boone’s death. The only known painting of Boone done from life. Courtesy of Massachusetts Historical Society. Gift of George T. Bigelow.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940–

Frontiersman : Daniel Boone and the making of America / Meredith Mason Brown.

     p. cm. —(Southern biography series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8071-3356-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820. 2. Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820—Influence. 3. Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820—Relations with Indians. 4. Pioneers—Kentucky—Biography. 5. Explorers—Kentucky—Biography. 6. Frontier and pioneer life—Kentucky. 7. Kentucky—Discovery and exploration. 8. Missouri—Discovery and exploration. 9. Frontier and pioneer life—United States. 10. United States—Territorial expansion. I. Title.

F454.B66B77 2009

976.9’02092—dc22

[B]

2008018153

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