Warrior-Pioneers II

Warrior-Pioneers II

Anne Crabb

42,30 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Heritage Books
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Genealogía, heráldica, nombres y honores
ISBN:
9780788452178
42,30 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Warrior-Pioneers II: Extracts from the Boone Papers, Volumes 14C-15C of the Draper Manuscripts Defenders of the western frontiers of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri were Lyman Draper’s narrators in these transcriptions from two volumes of the Boone Papers of Draper’s collection, held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.Letters and depositions of Daniel Boone and others follow his years in Kentucky, Kanawha, and Missouri; as well as detailed Indian captivity stories sent to Draper from members of the Sharp, Flinn, and Tackett families. They wrote of their last glance at burning cabins as they were carried off to Indian towns to be adopted, sold, enslaved, or killed.The last part of the volume contains correspondence and interviews from Missouri, where Draper heard from transplanted Kentuckians who told of building cabins and forts all over again for defense in Missouri alongside sons of Daniel Boone. Eyewitness accounts of battles in Missouri and Black Hawk War close this volume.Facsimile reprints of original documents with letters of Daniel Boone are included. An index presents full names, places, and subjects.Anne Crabb2025, 6' x 9', paper, index, pp.ISBN: 9780788452178101-C5217

Artículos relacionados

  • A Walk Through the Past - People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama
    William Lindsey McDonald
    Descended from early pioneers of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama, the author, William Lindsey McDonald began collecting historical information about the Muscle Shoals more than a half century ago. This research has involved personal interviews with Civil War veterans,former slaves, and descendants of both Native Americans and families of the frontier who were among the ...
    Disponible

    33,34 €

  • Remembering Sweetwater - The Mansions, the Mills, the People
    William L. McDonald
    Remembering Sweetwater gives an historical account of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. McDonald gives detailed accounts of such notable people from the area such as Governor Robert Miller Patton, teacher and writer Maud Lindsay, Judge William B. Woods, as well as many others. He also covers the major industries and business...
    Disponible

    23,86 €

  • Conklin-Marinkovic Family History
    David G Conklin
    A family history and genealogy of the Conklin, Lingren and Marinkovic families that emigrated from Western, Northern and Eastern Europe, merged in America and dispersed across the United States. Includes stories, photos, documents, pedigree charts and genetic DNA reports. 3 ...
    Disponible

    19,67 €

  • Irish Heraldry
    Nicholas Williams
    Few topics are as interesting as heraldry although it is necessary to learn a new vocabulary to enjoy the subject fully. In this book, illustrated by the author, the origin, development and particular nature of Irish heraldry are described; how heraldry was first brought to Ireland by the Anglo-Normans and gradually adopted also by the Gaelic Irish. When describing the various ...
    Disponible

    31,96 €

  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1, 1847
    NEHGS
    This quarterly journal, commonly called simply The Register, is certainly the oldest, and arguably the best, genealogical periodical published in the United States. Within its volumes, researchers will find some of the most valuable genealogical compilations and source record transcriptions to be found anywhere. It is difficult, one might even say foolhardy, to attempt to do re...
    Disponible

    32,10 €

  • THE HAMILTONS OF DANBURY 1688-2015
    GEORGE A GLASS
                                                      The Hamiltons                The experiences of the Danbury Hamilton family run through 350 years of U.S. history.  Originating in Glasgow in 1640, family members hunted whales off Cape Cod and were charged with witchcraft.  They purchased large swaths of land on Bear Mountain in Danbury’s Pembroke district.  They served as mil...
    Disponible

    28,08 €

Otros libros del autor

  • And the Battle Began like Claps of Thunder
    Anne Crabb
    At the time of the Revolutionary War, there were only a few small forts in Kentucky. This small contingent carried the burden of defending the western frontier. Fort Boonesborough played a crucial role in their spirited defense.Fort Boonesborough’s population was about 60 persons in all - about 10 families - when it was besieged for nine days in September 1778. Help was hundred...
    Disponible

    31,04 €

  • Warrior-Pioneers
    Anne Crabb
    Lyman Copeland Draper’s collection focuses on what he called the “Trans-Allegheny West” during the Revolutionary War years. This area included the western Carolinas and Virginia, the entire Ohio River Valley, and parts of the Mississippi River Valley. Letters and interviews in his collection date from the 1840s to 1891, with an emphasis on the western frontier (Kentucky). In th...
    Disponible

    42,44 €