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.
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
PART I: The Frontier
CHAPTER 1: A Patient Pathfinder
CHAPTER 2: "The Single Nation to Fear"
CHAPTER 3: The Long Hunters
CHAPTER 4: Into the Yadkin
CHAPTER 5: The Ohio Country
CHAPTER 6: Kanta-Ke
CHAPTER 7: Braddock's Folly
CHAPTER 8: Rebecca Bryan
CHAPTER 9: The Cherokee Wars
CHAPTER 10: "Boone's Surprise"
PART II: The Explorers
CHAPTER 11: Pontiac's Rebellion
CHAPTER 12: "An Execrable Race"
CHAPTER 13: By Royal Proclamation
CHAPTER 14: The Gap
CHAPTER 15: The Warrior's Path
CHAPTER 16: "Without Even A Horse or a Dog"
CHAPTER 17: "A Second Paradise"
CHAPTER 18: Cold Rain Mixed With the Tears
PART III: The Settlers
CHAPTER 19: A White Invasion
CHAPTER 20: Lord Dunmore's War
CHAPTER 21: Logan's Lament
CHAPTER 22: Boone's Trace
CHAPTER 23: A New World
CHAPTER 24 - Revolution
CHAPTER 25: Kidnapped
CHAPTER 26: An Indian Army
CHAPTER 27: Abandoned Settlements
CHAPTER 28: "The Best Little Indian Fight"
PART IV: The Conquest
CHAPTER 29: Taken
CHAPTER 30: Sheltowee
CHAPTER 31: A Mistrusted Hero
CHAPTER 32: Prelude To a Siege
CHAPTER 33: A Haze of Stinking Sulfurous Smoke
CHAPTER 34: "Widder-Makers"
CHAPTER 35: War In the West
CHAPTER 36: Boone's Station
CHAPTER 37: The Moravian Massacre
CHAPTER 38: Death at Blue Licks
CHAPTER 39: 'Blood and Treasure'
EPILOGUE
Praise for Blood and Treasure:
"Masterfully researched saga." --The Virginia Gazette
"Bob Drury and Tom Clavin together have given us a half-dozen elegantly written narratives of exhilarating episodes in American history. [Blood and Treasure] may be the authors' finest work to date. Redolent of time and place, a raw and rugged tale." --Wall Street Journal
"For anyone who loves the adventurous side of American history, "Blood and Treasure" is a gem. It's full of action, thorough and wide. Seek out this treasure and you won't be disappointed." --Terri Schlichenmeyer for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, challenge conventional wisdom about an American origin story and, in the process, weave a tale fit for the big screen." -- Washington Free Beacon
"Clavin and Drury return with an enlightening biography of Daniel Boone set against the backdrop of 18th-century America's conflicts with England and Native tribes. [They] successfully separate fact from fiction while keeping the pages turning. History buffs will be entertained." -- Publishers Weekly
"Popular historians Drury and Clavin deliver a ripsnortin' tale of the early frontier and its first and most powerful legend. [ Blood and Treasure] offers a vivid account of Boone's frontier years, one that may not be for the faint of heart." -- Kirkus
" Blood and Treasure tells the Boone story through the prism of the larger struggle for the frontier. It is a substantial and lively book by an accomplished history-writing duo." -- National Review
BOB DRURY, the recipient of several national journalism awards, is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist as well as a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Drury honed his investigative skills writing for all four New York City newspapers as well as a variety of national publications. His journalism career has arced from sports to crime to adventure travel to foreign correspondence. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of more than ten non-fiction books, including Blood and Treasure, Valley Forge, and Lucky 666.
TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy --Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone--and Blood and Treasure, The Last Hill, and Throne of Grace with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub Date: March 15, 2022
1.07" H x 8.25" L x 5.38" W
416 pages
paperback