Life and adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon : the first white settler of the state of Kentucky /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
[publisher not identified],
[Reprinted, 1916]
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| Series: | Heartman's historical series ;
no. 17. |
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| Item Description: | "26 copies printed for Heartman's historical series. Also 51 copies printed for the Daniel Boone club." This copy not numbered. The first part of the account, extending to 1782, was written in the form of an autobiography of Boone, "from his own mouth," by John Filson and first published in the appendix to his "Discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky," Wilmington, Del., 1784. cf. R. T. Durrett, John Filson, 1884, and preface to Filson's "Discovery." The continuation of the life of Boone is by "a near relation of the colonel" (a resident of Cincinnati) Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | [3], [11]-42 pages : portrait ; 26 x 21 cm. |