Daniel Boone

[Renegade]

I'm reading a book titled: "Boone" by Robert Morgan. It's an excellent read,  To show you how little I knew about Daniel Boone I didn't know he was born in Pennsylvania or that he didn't wear a coon skin hat. I 'm  looking for some input on other good books on Boone, or other woodsman of that time period. Thanks in advance for your help. I'm really digging this Time period of our History.

[Watauga]

Renegade
The Hunters of Kentucky
by Ted Franklin Belue is a Good book!

[Mohawk13]

The Frontiersmen...By Allen Eckart...details some of the early explorers..to include Boone, Kenton, and a few others. The whole series of books are a great read, for the early history buff....

[mongrel]

"Daniel Boone" by John Mack Faragher.

I had a copy of Morgan's book, but I can't find it and have no idea what I might have done with it.

Allan W. Eckert's six volume "Narratives Of America" begins with "The Frontiersmen", which actually focuses on Simon Kenton and Tecumseh, but Boone turns up in quite a few parts, as does Simon Girty. The only caution about Eckert's books, at least "The Frontiersmen" -- though originally presented as true history, a number of details in the narrative have been found to be incorrect. Still the books are excellent reading for anyone interested in the time period, and if they do get some facts wrong they still get across, quite powerfully at times, how grim and violent the American frontier was.

For the same reasons I much recommend Eckert's "That Dark And Bloody River", dealing with 18th-century settlement and warfare along the Pittsburgh-to-Cincinnati stretch of the Ohio River. Daniel Boone barely figures in this one, but you'll learn about other major figures on the same widespread frontier -- the Zane clan, the Wetzels, Simon Girty and Simon Kenton again, Sam Brady, and more. Well worth the reading....

[Renegade]

Thanks for the helpful tips guys.