The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone and How Early Americans Took to the Road: The French & Indian War; Trails, Turnpikes, & the Great Wilderness Roa

by Cheryl Harness

Book Overview

Daniel Boone's story is every young adventurer's fantasy: A childhood in Pennsylvania spent hunting on lands shared with Native Americans; a coming-of-age fighting in the French and Indian War; and the fulfillment of a life's dream with the blazing of the Wilderness Road across the Appalachian Mountains and the settling of Boonesborough in Kentucky. Add to this the rescue of his daughter from Shawnee warriors, and readers are quickly in the thick...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426301456
• ISBN13: 9781426301452
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9