Blood and Treasure Quotes

“But extrapolating from Joseph Martin’s records and Boone’s own timeline of reaching subsequent geographical landmarks, it is safe to say that the horsemen ascended the gently sloping sixteen hundred feet to the southeastern entrance of the saddlelike breach in mid-May.”
― Bob Drury, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

“The land they occupied, if not yet taken, would soon be. Their venerable cultures, if not yet erased, would soon be. Their spirit, if not yet broken, would soon be.”
― Bob Drury, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

“Trot father, trot mother, how could you expect a pacing colt?”
― Bob Drury, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

“you cannot steal what the Crown has already stolen.”
― Bob Drury, Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier