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 13 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 finally
against 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, white and red, 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.
