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The Taking of Jemima Boone - Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
epub | 5.89 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0062937782 | Author: Matthew Pearl | Year: 2021



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"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....


Category:US Revolution & Founding History, Native American History, U.S. Revolution & Founding History



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