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  <title>Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Southern Biography Series)</title>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Biographies of Daniel Boone are a dime a dozen. Brown's biography is unique in that it widens the focus. While other biographies are interested in Boone the hero, Boone the natural man, Boone the trailblazer, Boone the myth (either to enhance or bust), Brown is interested in Boone in the social context. He covers everything that is known or claimed about Boone but he also discusses the Boone's place in the economic and political history of the time. He is better than most on the complex politics of the border wars with the indigenous nations. Boone was caught up in forces he probably didn't fully understand himself. Who does understand his/her own time? The great irony of his life is that his skill as a scout and hunter opened the territory to forces that destroyed the way of life he loved. Brown's book defines these forces in clear, readable prose. He also provides a very useful annotated bibliography.]]></body>
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