In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone (2nd edition, 2024)
In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone (2nd edition, 2024)
Award-winning biography of America's pioneer hero, Daniel Boone, told by putting his life on the landscape, taking the reader to 100 sites spread across 11 states. Trade paperback, 280 pp with over 160 photographs, illustrating Boone's life with images captured at historical reenactments over the last 20 years, plus a 60-page appendix with another 160 photographs taking readers to 100 sites where they can be where Daniel Boone was across his exciting, storied, legendary 86-years.
What readers are saying:
"This new edition of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone offers history buffs, adventurous explorers, and armchair travelers a book to learn from, laugh with, and love, love, love. From the stunning photos to the engaging text, this is a book you can't put down. The appendix, like the entire book, is a user-friendly guide to real places, real people, and profoundly important history.
"As I finish reading In the Footsteps I'm itching to pack my bags for the Cumberland Gap and pretend my 15-year-old Honda is a Conestoga wagon. Daniel Boone is lucky to have found in you the perfect historian of his travels. Somewhere in the Boonesborough of the Sky, he's dancing.
"Thank you for the gift of your story telling. History lives.
With gratitude," Mary Alice Dixon, Charlotte, NC
In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone
2nd edition (2024) of award-winning 2005 release
Market hunter, wilderness scout, frontier guide, master woodsman, expert marksman, militia leader, surveyor, land speculator, judge, sheriff, coroner, elected legislator, merchant, tavern keeper, prisoner of war, Spanish syndic, son, brother, husband, father—Daniel Boone led one of the fullest and most eventful lives in American history.
Showcasing 100 sites stretching across 11 states, In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone shares the exciting life story of America’s pioneer hero while also taking readers to the places where Boone lived, hunted, fought, and dreamed of the next frontier.
You’ll find the sites where two of Boone’s sons were slain by warriors, where he rescued his kidnapped daughter from Shawnee captors, where his brother was killed by Shawnees who mistook him for Boone, where he tricked a British governor, and where he was court-martialed on charges of treason.
In David, Kentucky, visit the hollow where Daniel Boone saw his first buffalo.
At Fort Boonesborough State Park, learn how his courage and cunning defeated a Shawnee siege.
From Cumberland Gap, follow the 1775 Boone Trace which helped usher in a quarter-million settlers into Kentucky along the later Wilderness Road.
And in Pennsylvania and Missouri, see the homes where he was born into and departed this world—a thousand miles, 86 years, and a legendary life apart.
Randell Jones has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award Medal from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. He is the author of the award-winning Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain and other history books about the pioneer and Revolutionary War eras.
He ventures out, photographs, writes, and speaks from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
copyright, Randell Jones
280 pages plus index and bibliography, 300+ images from 20 years of historical reenactments plus multiple visits to all 100 sites, including 60-page appendix of all 100 sites, trade paperback, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
2006 Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, North Carolina Society of Historians