Blood and Treasure

Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

Narrated by: George Newbern

The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two best-selling authors at the height of their writing power - Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

It is the mid-18th century, and in the 13 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 finally against 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, white and red, 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 listener at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

“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)

©2021 Tom Clavin and Bob Drury (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Very detailed and enjoyable.

Nothing. I felt that the book was well written. There could have been a deeper introduction of the primary sources.

Hearty Overview

If you have a moderate interest in Colonial-Native relations and massacres, Ohio River Valley, late 18th C, this is a great place to start. This book is good enough to make that interest more than moderate. And only the best history books can ever do that.

Evan's Review

Has a boy growing up in Western Davidson County NC along the Yankin River learning the stories of Daniel Boone i enjoyed the book Alot of the stories I heard was based on legend not on fact. Daniel Boone was really an explorer. One thing that stands out I my mine with all his explores the man lived to be 85 years old.

Amazing

The combination of story and narration is fantastic. Such a fascinating period of time, and what a life lived by Daniel Boone. I have read several books by Drury and Clavin, and all are very good; this one I think is their best so far.

A great history of Daniel Boone and Kentucky

A great story, well told and in amazing detail about Boone, his family, his associates and then Native Americans they faced.