as to why Daniel Boone never wore his coonskin cap
Glass, Andrew
2000
With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.
A brief biography of the famed frontiersman who led settlers into Kentucky, was elected to the Kentucky assembly, and lost his own land there in disastrous legal battles.
Presents a profile of frontiersman Daniel Boone, discussing his early life, his success as a hunter and tracker, his determination to settle in Kentucky, his conflicts with the Shawnee, and his impact on American history.
A portrait defines the man and the times he helped shape, drawing from popular narrative, the public record, and scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand.
Traces the life of the colonial pioneer, hunter, and woodsman, from his youth in the Pennsylvania wilderness to his adventures in the sparsely settled portions of Virginia, the Carolinas, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Traces the boyhood years of the celebrated frontiersman who, as a Quaker in Pennsylvania, learned the skills which would make him the leader in opening up the Wilderness Road to Kentucky.