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Book

The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America

Call Number

  • 970.00497 P3597 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Physical 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.

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.

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