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New book chronicles life of Pennsylvania-born frontiersman Daniel Boone

September 30, 2021

Pennsylvania-born Daniel Boone was perhaps America’s best-known and celebrated frontiersman when the frontier was west of the Appalachian Mountains. Boone made his name as a hunter and trapper early in his life but eventually led white Americans into the wilds of present-day Kentucky. A new book — Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for …