Boone


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The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years—a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.




Learn and Grow Daily!


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Learn and Grow Daily! is about a journey toward self-improvement for everyday people like you and me. It is a journey which can start from wherever you are in life now, no matter who you are, or where you are in your life. Learn and Grow Daily! is about personal transformation from being a passenger in life, to becoming a life-long learner and taking control of life. It is a story of how anyone can take the same journey and learn and grow daily to become the person you were meant to be. Learn and Grow Daily! is a compilation of knowledge gained from some of the world's most gifted researchers, consultants and leadership experts. Learn and Grow Daily! opens your eyes to improvements you can make within your own life by reading, learning and applying to growing daily. Are you ready to learn and grow? Sanford Berenberg is an everyday person like you. In his travels through life, going to school, college and entering the workforce he found it was not enough to survive, much less thrive in today's complex society. Downsized and running out of options, Sanford made a decision to change the direction of his life. He became a life-long learner and turned his life around. He has now started reaching out to help others to do the same through his continued learning and his 'Messages of the Day' and this first book. Sanford is a 20 year veteran of the customer service industry having worked in the software development, bank card, health insurance, and professional services industries from entry level to middle management. He has a Bachelor's degree and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Sanford lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his loving wife, Karen, and two wonderful step-daughters, Stephanie and Samantha.




The Cumulative Book Index


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A world list of books in the English language.







Kentucky Libraries


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Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky


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"Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott recounts the fascinating history of one of America's most well-known and quasi-mythological figures, Daniel Boone. Abbot's story weaves a tale of romance, adventure, and action in a way that is sure to grip readers from the very first word until the last page.




Our Low Dutch Heritage


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Abraham Voorhees or Voreis, was baptized 11 October 1772, possibly in Conewago, Pennsylvania or Berkeley County, Virginia. His parents were Peter Voorhees and Sophia Vanderbogert. He married Elizabeth Downey in about 1793, probably in Mercer County, Kentucky. They had fourteen children. Abraham died 8 May 1860 in Marshall County, Indiana. Includes variant spellings Voris, Vories and Voorhis.




Blood and Treasure


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The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal 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.