Blood and Treasure - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

Blood and Treasure

By Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

  • Release Date: 2021-04-20
  • Genre: U.S. History
Score: 4
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From 162 Ratings

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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.

Reviews

  • Ugh

    2
    By Ron G Jr
    Was so looking forward to reading this book. But the author, much like today’s “woke” movement, has to bring racism and his liberal ideology woven into the story.
  • Blood and treasure

    5
    By Bee britches
    By far the best Boone book I’ve- read[ and I have read them all!
  • History courses

    2
    By russ kram
    The book is very complete,but is a history book like you were in high school.It was a struggle to finish.An amazing amount of research done by the author

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