Subject | • | Boon, Daniel, -- 1734-1820 | [X] |
| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Life and adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, the first white settler of the state of Kentucky: comprising an acount of his first excursion to Kentucky in 1769 ... and of his various encounters with the Indians, from ... 1769 to 1782
| | | | Creator: | Filson, John, ca. 1747-1788 | | | | Publication: | Printed by H. Trumbull, Providence,1824. | | | | Notes: | The first part of the account, extending to 1782 (p. [3]-19) 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 Kentucke," Wilmington, Del., 1784. cf. R.T. Durrett, John Filson, 1884, and preface to Filson's "Discovery." The continuaton of the life of Boone is by "a near relation of the colonel (a resident of Cincinnati)" In this edition the text of Filson's account varies from that of the original edition. | | | | Call #: | F31HA B724F2 | | | | Extent: | 36 p. : port. ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Boon, Daniel, -- 1734-1820
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