Professor John Mack Faragher
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale. He is the author of many books on American history, including a biography of Daniel Boone that received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale. He is the author of many books on American history, including a biography of Daniel Boone that received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. See less
Professor John Mack Faragher's Featured Books
Professor John Mack Faragher book reviews
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Daniel Boone
by Gary S, Aug 14, 2014
Excellent book about the real Daniel Boone! He truly was an amazing man of great courage and integrity. You will find out he was not the Indian killer that legend has made him out to be but a man ... Read More
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Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie
Good for history or entertainment
In Sugar Creek, Faragher argues that frontiersmen were not the individualists that many Americans believe. These settlers relied heavily on the community to find, build and develop the areas of ... Read More
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was a facinating book to read. It was required reading for a Westward Expansion class I'm taking in college, but it was written in a form so that I could easily pick up on main themes. ... Read More
