Daniel Boone

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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Genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction

156 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Reuben Gold Thwaites was an American librarian and historical writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_...

Reviews

[Lexy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book was okay

[Jake Mcconnell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent enough read, but the footnotes seemed to cite primary sources only a handful of times so it's questionable where some of the material actually came from. I wanted to check the veracity of some of the facts presented, but feel like this aspect fell short.

[Connie Huddleston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Considering when it was written, this is a fairly good biography. I was reading as research.

[Pam McCallister · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

He wasn't born in Kentucky. He didn't die in Kentucky. Yet, to the average American, the name of Daniel Boone is inextricably linked with that state.

I had hoped for a more detailed biography of Boone. However, only 49% of the Kindle edition that I read was Thwaites' book; the rest was index, footnotes, and advertisements for other books.

[Nicole Overmoyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative book. I was surprised that so many of the 'facts' about Daniel Boone that were used in television and the movies were known to be false in 1902 when the book was published.

I'm kind of shocked that he detested the famed 'coon skin cap' that was supposed to be his trademark.

[Avis Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

Informative and judicious (the author is an expert in the history of this period) but rather bloodless.

[Todd Weatherford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay book I wished for more details of Daniel Boone.

I chooser the rating because of not much details in the book.

But it got interesting at the end of the book.