Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This is the definitive biography of Boone, though it, too, will appear thin when compared to biographies of other major historical figures. Boone's own carefully dictated autobiographical notes were lost by his son, and his associates were not Boswells. However, Elliott makes full use of the Draper Manuscript Collection and other more recently published material to write the first important new book on Boone since 1939. He brings out a number of hithertofore unknown facts about Boone and neatly ties his history to the history of frontier America. However cautiously Elliott resists the temptation to romanticize his subject, Boone resists understatement; no matter how simply his story is told, he still emerges as a 'transcendent figure,' a towering hero unique in American history." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)