Volume 54, Number 20 · December 20, 2007
At Home in Paradise
By Madison Smartt Bell
Boone: A Biography
by Robert Morgan
Shannon Ravenel/Algonquin,538 pp., $29.95
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
by Peter Silver
Norton, 406 pp., $29.95
Daniel Boone: His Own Story
by Daniel Boone
Applewood, 128 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Life of Daniel Boone
by Lyman C. Draper, edited by Ted Franklin Belue
Stackpole, 596 pp., $39.95
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone
edited by Neal O. Hammon
University Press of Kentucky, 176 pp., $25.00
A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone
by Peter Houston, edited by Ted Franklin Belue
Stackpole, 81 pp., $15.95
The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems
by Robert Morgan
Louisiana State University Press, 137 pp., $18.95 (paper)
The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories
by Robert Morgan
Scribner, 250 pp., $12.00 (paper)
The Abstract Wild
by Jack Turner
University of Arizona Press, 136 pp., $17.95 (paper)
This irksomely catchy faux folk song, together with Fess Parker's earnest portrayal of the frontier hero for Disney, cemented an image of Daniel Boone in the minds of two or three generations of Americans. The TV show first appeared in the early Sixties, when its American audience was innocent in the scariest sense of that word. Disneyfied Daniel Boone represented the unpretentious, forthright, steadfast, and homespun style with which we were going to civilize the entire world.
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