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The Taking of Jemima Boone : : Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

Pearl, Matthew. Book - 2021 976.902 Pe, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 17th & 18th Century / Pearl, Matthew 4 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Cast of characters -- Prologue -- The taking. Duck ; Bloody ground ; The plan ; Ends of the Earth -- Retaliation. Fallout ; Rise of Blackfish ; Families -- The reckoning. Risen ; Before the thunder ; The last siege ; Aftershocks.
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.

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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062937780
0062937782

SUBJECTS
Boone, Jemima -- Captivity.
Boone, Daniel, -- 1734-1820.
Native American captivities -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Native Americans -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.