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Summary: America¿s First Mountain Man.
Review: This is an interesting book about a simple man who attained mythical proportions. When we think about the mountain men, we think of the explorers of the Rocky Mountains. One hundred years earlier, however, the west included the Eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Thus, Daniel Boone and men like him were the original mountain men, the men who pushed the frontier to the western slopes of the Appalachians and beyond, all the way to the Mississippi River.This is a reasonably well done rendition of Boone's life. Equally important, however, is the glimpse we get into America's original frontier, the one that existed between the start of the French and Indian War up to and including the Louisiana Purchase. John Mack Faragher does a credible job on a very difficult subject. This book depicts Boone in the same vein as the mountain men of the far west: wanderers to some, explorers to other. Regardless of which camp you fall into, Daniel Boone and the men of his period represent the earliest step in the westward movement that 100 years later would be termed Manifest Destiny Boone's is a life that reflected those first steps.
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