The Instant New York Times Besteller
National Bestseller
"[The] authors' finest work to date." --*Wall Street Journal
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the
bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the
height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.**
It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded
by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle
North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains
commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged
against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French,
and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to
reverberate around the world.
This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic
narrative is America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel
Boone--not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but
the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose
explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would
become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two
award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United
States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and
larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it.
This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and
journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring
chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places
the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales
of courage and sacrifice.
