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The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
- Title
- The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America / Matthew Pearl.
- Author
- Pearl, Matthew
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 272 pages : illustration; 24 cm
- Summary
- Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
- Contents
- Cast of characters -- Prologue -- The taking. Duck ; Bloody ground ; The plan ; Ends of the Earth -- Retaliation. Fallout ; Rise of Blackfish ; Families -- The reckoning. Risen ; Before the thunder ; The last siege ; Aftershocks.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8847
- ISBN
- 9780062937780
- 0062937782
- OCLC
- 1269074402
- Author
- Pearl, Matthew, author.
- Title
- The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America / Matthew Pearl.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8847