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/100
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55/100Critics
37/100Scholars
Author:
Bob Drury
Publisher:
Griffin
Date:
March 15, 2022
Popular historians Drury and Clavin return with a look at the legend of the Revolutionary War hero Boone and his role in America's bloody war with Native Americans to dominate territory beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What The Reviewers Say
This may be the authors’ finest work to date. Unquestionably, Blood and Treasure is among the most redolent of time and place. I felt myself immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of frontier life, as well as the lurking dangers and gruesome deep-forest clashes between grasping frontiersmen and Native Americans defending their country—such are the authors’ keen descriptive powers. Numerous excellent maps enhance the text.
They convey in wonderful detail Boone’s early hunting expeditions and explorations of what is now Kentucky, particularly the remarkable expedition into the level plain of Kentucky along with Findlay. But then, in what at first appears as an unrelated thread, the authors provide chapters about the Native American tribes in the territory of what is now Ohio.
Because this area of history is so often neglected, it’s extremely helpful that the authors pause in telling Boone’s story to provide the missing perspective.
Daniel Boone's life and exploits have become myth and legend, and the authors stay on familiar ground in presenting Boone as an ambitious leader, a fearless fighter, and a man with a strong belief in his own self-worth.
