Research Catalog
A familiar wilderness : searching for home on Daniel Boone's road
- Title
- A familiar wilderness : searching for home on Daniel Boone's road / S.J. Dahlman.
- Author
- Dahlman, S. J. (Simon Jaques)
- Publication
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-6056 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 313 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book traces Dahlman's 2013 trek over the 275-mile trail from Sycamore Shoals, near Elizabethton, Tennessee, to Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky. Initially undertaken after the death of his wife, Dahlman's account interweaves the history of the places he traverses with personal reflections and dozens of profiles and conversations with people he meets along the way. He questions how the Wilderness Road devolved from an important early American route predating Lewis and Clark to the humble footpath, both paved and wild, that now meanders through Southern Appalachia"--
- Subject
- Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
- Dahlman, S. J. > Travel > Wilderness Road
- Pioneers > Kentucky > Biography
- Pioneers
- Travel
- Wilderness Road > Description and travel
- Wilderness Road > History
- Appalachian Region, Southern > Description and travel
- Appalachian Region, Southern > History, Local
- Appalachian Region, Southern
- Kentucky
- United States > Wilderness Road
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Local history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- False start -- Fighting men -- To the blockhouse -- Kicked in the head -- Down and out in Scott County -- The devil's racetrack -- The association -- Over Powell mountain -- Native land -- Feeling like a king -- Where the buffalo roam... a little -- Through the gap -- Dreams and hopes -- Bewildered -- Cursing and blessing -- Rural renewal -- Japanese bluegrass and other mysteries -- Riches and poverty -- The center of the universe -- Battleground state -- White lights, red house, brown dog -- Heading home.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6056
- ISBN
- 9781621904786
- 1621904784
- LCCN
- 2018034890
- 40028945552
- OCLC
- 1050363120
- Author
- Dahlman, S. J. (Simon Jaques), author.
- Title
- A familiar wilderness : searching for home on Daniel Boone's road / S.J. Dahlman.
- Publisher
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Dahlman, S. J. (Simon Jaques), author. Familiar wilderness First edition. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2019] 9781621904793 (DLC) 2018050924
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028945552
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6056