Here is how you can help — And get this book for free

Please donate at least $100 to any of these nonprofits:
-          Boone Chamber of Commerce Foundation ( https://www.boonechamber.com/foundation )
-          Children’s Council of Watauga County ( https://www.thechildrenscouncil.org/helene )

 Daniel Boone Footsteps publishing has set aside 100 copies of the new book, the 2nd edition of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone, with the goal of helping you contribute to raising $10,000 for disaster relief for the Town of Boone and Watauga County communities affected by Helene. The Boone Chamber of Commerce Foundation is the most broad-based and reliable recipient of your donations as they will direct contributions to where they are needed most now and through the long recovery period anticipated. The Children’s Council of Watauga County is another reliable and grateful recipient of your donation. Daniel and Rebecca Boone reared not only their own 9 children surviving infancy, but their household included nephews and other family members as well who they took in and reared as their own. The couple had 57 grandchildren. They understood the value and necessity of offering and providing help to those raising children.

 In appreciation for your donation of at least $100 to either of these nonprofits, we will send you, at no cost to you, an autographed copy of the just-released 2nd edition of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone by Randell Jones, the much expanded and revised award-winning book from 2005. (This book retails for $27.95 and with shipping is a $35 value. All of your donation, 100%, goes to the organization. This book is provided to you by the author, Randell Jones, d/b/a Daniel Boone Footsteps. The nonprofit is providing you nothing in exchange for your donation, so your donation is still as tax-deductible as it was without consideration of you receiving this book.)  

In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone tells the life story of America’s pioneer hero by putting his life on the landscape, sharing his life story, now through the 2nd edition, in a 186-page narrative illustrated with 160 photographs Randell has taken at reenactments during the last 20 years. Sixty more pages share the 100 sites spread across 11 states that you can visit to be where Daniel Boone was, places where you will find markers, monuments, plaques, museums, historic homes, replica forts, and the eight known statues of Daniel Boone. These are places where he lived, loved, hunted, explored, and fought for America’s independence during the American Revolution. He lived here in North Carolina for 21 years after arriving with his parents from Pennsylvania as a teenager in 1752 to today’s Davie County. He explored Florida—yes, Florida—before moving to the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1766. In 1775, he marked Boone’s Trace for others to follow into the Kentucky wilderness. This began America’s First Westward Movement, which preceded by only two weeks the beginning of the shooting war with Great Britain at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. Boone lived in Kentucky for 24 years. He moved to Missouri in 1799 where he lived his last 20 years, passing away a few weeks shy of his 86th birthday. Daniel Boone lived one of the fullest and most eventful lives in American history—market hunter, wilderness scout, frontier guide, master woodsman, expert marksman, militia leader, surveyor, land speculator, judge, sheriff, coroner, elected legislator, merchant, merchant, tavern keeper, prisoner-of-war, Spanish syndic, son, brother, husband, father. He did it all.

 The Boone Spirit

Self-reliance and taking care of others in his community was part of Daniel Boone’s pioneer spirit. That spirit is expressed today in the community of the Town of Boone and Watauga County as those citizens pull together to recover from the loss and devastation wrought upon their community by the wind and flooding caused by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Helene. Show your support today for our High Country neighbors. Send your financial help along with your concern and prayers. They will appreciate both.

Getting your free, thank-you copy of
In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone

After you make your online donation to one of the nonprofit organizations listed above, please email us (at DBooneFootsteps@gmail.com) providing (1) the mailing address where you want to receive the book by USPS media mail and (2)a copy of the donation receipt or a screenshot of the confirmation of your donation. Or, if you prefer, you can mail us a check made payable to one of the nonprofit organizations listed above. We will deliver the check to them. (Mailed checks should go to Daniel Boone Footsteps, 1959 N. Peace Haven Rd., #105, Winston-Salem, NC, 27106.)

After your donation is completed and you have provided proof of such (or presented the check by mail to us), we will mail you an autographed copy of the 2nd edition of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone along with our heart-felt appreciation for your generosity. Please tell your family and friends about this book and this fund-raising opportunity. We will advise all donors in occasional updates on our collective success in this fundraising effort to help our neighbors. You may also enjoy perusing other titles we offer under “Books & DVDs.” And you can also purchase additional copies of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone for gift-giving without making additional donations. Those copies will also be autographed. You can purchase any of our books at https://www.randelljones.com/books-and-dvds (DanielBooneFootsteps.com and RandellJones.com are the same website.)

 Thank you for your donation and for showing your support for our neighbors affected by Hurricane Helene. You are doing so “in the spirit of Boone.”