Daniel Boone's Great Escape
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This remarkable story was created from a single line reference in Boone's autobiography. He was in fact captured by Shawnee warriors and brokered a deal where he would remain with them and work to convince settlers to give up without a fight. When he learned of their plans to attack his family's settlement in Kentucky, he could not sit idly by. He escaped in an effort to get word to the settlers of the tribe's plan. Boone's journey back home was the stuff of derring-do as he eluded the Indians who were tracking him. Pushing himself beyond human capacity, he ran for more than four days and a total of 160 miles.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780802795823 (library binding)
080279582X (library binding)
9780802795816 (trade)
0802795811 (trade)
0807295825
9780807295823
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hoyt, Ard,
SUBJECTS
Boone, Daniel, -- 1734-1820 -- Captivity, 1778.
Escapes -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Indian captivities -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Shawnee Indians -- History -- 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky.
Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Explorers -- Kentucky -- Biography.
Kentucky -- History -- To 1792.