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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Second Printing w/number line. Request free DJ mylar w/e-mail to seller. Signed personal inscription by editor on title page. Personal gift inscription on dedication page. 6.25"x9.25". 596 index pgs. Denim cloth spine w/gold foil letters wrapping heather blue boards. DJ design by Wendy A. Reynolds. Cover portrait by Chester Harding. Author photo William Strode and Assoc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped ($39.95), PO address label on ffep, no bumps. Small mended tear. Price covers secure ship in box w/track #. When he died in 1891, historian Draper left unfinished this massive biography of legendary Kentucky frontier hero Daniel Boone (1734-1820). Now Belue, who teaches history at Murray State University in Kentucky, has transcribed and annotated Draper's rambling manuscript, whose florid, hagiographic prose should not deter readers from some real merits. First, Draper, an indefatigable researcher, drew upon thousands of documents as well as interviews with white, Native American and black frontier dwellers to re-create Boone's colorful exploits, including his blazing of a trail through the Cumberland Gap; his construction of Boonesborough, the first permanent settlement in the "Far West"; and his dramatic rescue of his daughter Jemima and two other girls from Indians. Second, Draper's tome is a treasure trove of early Americana, covering Indian-Anglo wars and relations, the fur trade, the British presence and trans-Appalachian life, flora and fauna. Third, the 76 period drawings, engravings, photographs and maps offer revealing glimpses of both whites and Native Americans. And finally, Belue's entertaining and informative chapter notes diligently correct Draper's romanticization, offering instead a lifelong wanderer from home and family, a failed land speculator, an adventurer who watched his son tortured to death by Cherokees but who still sought accommodation with the Indians. Regrettably, Draper's text breaks off in 1778, but a chronology, epilogue and appendix sketch Boone's later exploits. Source: Publisher.
