Daniel Boone Book Recommendations

It was Davy Crockett was at the Alamo.

Now I want to read about him.

Boone by Robert Morgan is probably the most comprehensive.

I think it's audio only but "The Long Hunters" by Steven Rinella is a pretty good listen and not very long. Not specifically about Boone but most of it ends up being about him since he was the most famous and documented long hunter.


When you read a lot about him you realize he was a skilled woodsman/hunter but kind of an idiot otherwise.

I've added both Boone and Blood and Treasure to my Amazon list and will pick one of those up soon. Thank you both.

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Boone by Robert Morgan is probably the most comprehensive.

I think it's audio only but "The Long Hunters" by Steven Rinella is a pretty good listen and not very long. Not specifically about Boone but most of it ends up being about him since he was the most famous and documented long hunter.

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The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert.

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I really enjoyed that one. Took me awhile to get through but was very interesting at how all those people in that time frame interweaves throughout the timeframe and how we think of westward expansion as the wild Wild West but nope.. just settling the Ohio river and Kentucky was crazy and dangerous enough

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Listening to War and Remembrance right now and it is like 56 hours long.

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Are we best friends ??? Haha

Back in high school our history teacher showed us sections of war and remembrance the series especially the holocaust scenes

Never did watch it all the way through

Currently watching the winds of war ( they’re all on YouTube ). And I love it.

I finally got around to reading Blood and Treasure. I really enjoyed the book. Thank you for the recommendation. The book does a great job of covering the major historical events at the time that was driving people like Daniel Boone westwards. Very easy read and informative. I would love to have an opportunity to go back in time just to see things then and how different the landscape and wildlife would've been compared to what it is now.

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Allan W. Eckert

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It's been said there are two kinds of historians: those that can research very well but cannot write their way out of a paper bag; and those that can write very well but don't care about accurate research. Eckert was one of the rare ones that did both equally well. (Barbara Tuchman was another...).

All of Eckert's historical novels are vastly underrated and generational reads. They are as historically accurate as possible, the only reason these works are described as novels is because Eckert wrote conversations between the historical figures to smooth the narration. Conversations which of course are not possible to establish as we don't have records of what they actually said.

However his years spent with the Lyman Draper Manuscript Collection at the Univ. of Wisconsin's Library Archive and other primary sources is evident in his extensive lists of Native American tribes and leaders, footnote sections and principal sources in the postscript of each book. I believe it is impossible to study the Eastern American frontier and the associated Native American tribes without reading Eckert. Just be aware that reading some of those original sources is terrifying.