The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, Formerly a Hunter: Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky, with the Discovery, Purchase, and Settlement of Kentucky, and the Piankashaw Council, 1784, and Territory of North American Indians, and the Rights of Land in Kentucky
by Salisbury, Alvin
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Xenia: Old Chelicothe Press 1968. (Hardcover) 37pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Tan paper-covered boards over brown cloth spine with paper title labels on the front cover and spine. Folding maps, illustrations. The front cover title label is rubbed. "This is Daniel Boon's story as he told it in 1783 to John Filson, Pennsylvania schoolmaster turned traveler. With the addition of old maps and illustrations to his Adventures, the reader glimpses America's great frontiersman as he first appeared to the world and views the western wilderness as it looked to Daniel Boon" - from the Introduction. Book about Daniel Boon & Wars of Kentucky. Time Period 18th Century. Locale: Kentucky; Western America. (Western America, Adventure and Adventurers, Colonization, Indians of North America, Land Claims, Settlement--United States).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154687
- Title
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, Formerly a Hunter: Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky, with the Discovery, Purchase, and Settlement of Kentucky, and the Piankashaw Council, 1784, and Territory of North American Indians, and the Rights of Land in Kentucky
- Author
- Salisbury, Alvin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Old Chelicothe Press
- Place of Publication
- Xenia
- Keywords
- Western America, Adventure and Adventurers, Colonization, Indians of North America, Land Claims, Settlement--United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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