Boone's Lick is a 2000 American novel by Larry McMurtry about a family that travels from Missouri to Wyoming. It includes a depiction of the Fetterman...
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expressed concern over Boone's education, Boone's father said, "Let the girls do the spelling and Dan will do the shooting." Boone was tutored by family...
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War (1775–1783), one of Boone's sons was killed and another was wounded at the Battle of Blue Licks (August 19, 1782). Boone moved to numerous locations...
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Anything for Billy (category 1988 American novels)
American novel by Larry McMurtry about Billy the Kid. It was one of a series of what McMutry called his "frontier yarns", others including Boone's Lick and...
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Bone Lick State Park, "birthplace of American paleontology", and Boone County Arboretum are located in Boone County. Most of the county is within Boone County...
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about Boone's loyalty, since after surrendering the salt making party he had apparently lived quite happily among the Shawnees for months. Boone responded...
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Larry McMurtry (section Stand-alone novels)
warriors) 2000: Boone's Lick 2005: Loop Group 2006: Telegraph Days 2014: The Last Kind Words Saloon Larry McMurtry's first three novels, all set in the...
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Mary Draper Ingles (category Boone County, Kentucky)
Library. Duvall, James (2009). Mary Ingles and the Escape from Big Bone Lick (PDF). Boone County Public Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13...
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Finley convinced his friend Daniel Boone to lead a hunting party on a long hunt in Kentucky, including John Stewart, Boone's brother-in-law; they cleared a...
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Station. Three days later, his band ambushed Daniel Boone and Colonel Todd at the Battle of Blue Licks. Girty's conduct was described by a veteran of the...
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