| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America. By Meredith Mason Brown. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 375 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3356-9.)
Numerous modern biographies of Daniel Boone have engaged general and scholarly readers and added to the knowledge of Boone and his times. John Bakeless's Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness (1939) and Robert Morgan's Boone: A Biography (2007) bracket and exemplify a series of well-researched popular biographical treatments of the pioneer. Although not as radically skewed as earlier biographies, each of these modern works also navigates between romance and realism, themes abundant in his long life (1734–1820), to present a different perspective on Boone and his significance.	1
Enter Frontiersman by Meredith Mason Brown. His intent is "to give a full picture of Boone, stripping away the layers of myth that have encrusted" him since 1784, and to focus more than any previous work on "Boone as an example of and contributor to America's transformation" and as an illustration of "the conflicts in loyalties and the fluidity on the frontier" (p. xiv). While Brown does demythologize Boone, the process reveals no information that would startle a person familiar with Richard Slotkin's work and with recent studies of the pioneer. The contribution of this volume rests on how well the other objectives are fulfilled.	. . .

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