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Bezig met laden... The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped Americadoor Matthew Pearl
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Moshepit20 | Oct 29, 2023 |  An easy read, and quite enlightening. A genealogical chart of the participants. No maps, which is a handicap when trying to keep track of the movements of the various parties. No bibliography but references are incorporated into the endnotes. 1  setnahkt | Sep 4, 2023 | One cannot generalize when it comes to the positions taken by the colonists, or the British and their Native American allies. All ultimately did what they believed served their best interests. Nonetheless, the author inexplicably applies an apologetic gloss to Native American behavior and comes to some surprisingly unsubstantiated conclusions. One of the most glaring was his opinion that Shawnee chief Blackfish's goal in the siege of Boonesborough was to create a union of colonists and Native Americans living in peace and harmony. The record as to Blackfish is incredibly sparse, hence this is far more about the author's ideology than history. ( )1 la2bkk | Jul 30, 2023 |  )1 thornton37814 | Apr 2, 2023 | The frontier unrest was due to the settlers pushing into Kentucky, which was considered sacred ground to a number of Indian tribes. The Indians could see their land was being whittled away as once the white people claimed the land, they immediately drove the Indians out. There were atrocities committed by both sides and the bitterness between white and Indian had been going on for years. This was at the time of the Revolutionary War and Daniel Boone was an important person on the frontier. He personally led a group to make the first settlement in Kentucky, and had the respect of other pioneers and the ear of important people in Washington. Hanging Maw, the leader of the raiding party, was pleased with this capture as he felt they could use these girls as leverage. His plan backfired, however, as Boone and his men caught up to the Indians, rescued the girls and killed a couple of the Indians. One of the Indians killed was the son of the famous war chief, Blackfish, and so the back and forth animosity continued on. The author uses this incident to launch his account of how Daniel Boone, his fort entitled Boonesboro and the rest of the frontier settlements survived the next few years when they were fighting not only the Indians but the British who saw these frontiers as easy targets. Diplomacy and peace talks were thrown out and paranoia ran deep on all sides. The Taking of Jemima Boone is written in a knowledgeable and interesting manner. The author obviously did a lot of research and presents his facts in an engrossing manner which made for an exciting read. ( )1 DeltaQueen50 | Mar 9, 2023 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: "A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front." ?? Pulitzer Prize??winning author Stacy Schiff A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders' leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good. With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone's kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America's westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue. In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America's transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurMatthew Pearl is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Auteur ChatMatthew Pearl heeft van Oct 5, 2009 tot Oct 16, 2009 gechat met LibraryThing leden. Lees de chat. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)976.9History and Geography North America South Central U.S. KentuckyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.79)
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