I86054: Daniel BOONE Col. (22 Oct 1734

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1. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE BY MICHAEL A. LOFARO
2. DANIEL BOONE - MASTER OF THE WILDERNESS BY JOHN BAKELESS

America's forgotten atrocity
A unique hybrid people, the Acadians offered a wiser, kinder vision of settling the continent. Instead, they became the victims of North America's first ethnic cleansing campaign.

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By Andrew O'Hehir
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/salon4.htm

Excerpt:

John Mack Faragher is a leading and sometimes contentious scholar of Western history and the American frontier; his previous books include "The American West: A New Interpretive History" (as co-author) and a major biography of Daniel Boone. He does not mince words in describing the tragic history of Anglo-Native relations in North America, which is characterized, he writes, by episodes of "despicable brutality," a cycle of vicious white atrocities answered by violent Indian revenge and then by military reprisal.

John Mack Faragher spoke to Salon from his office in New Haven, Conn., where he heads the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale.

"My expertise is frontier history, and as you may know, before I did this book I wrote a biography of Daniel Boone. In that book, what I found so fascinating about this genuine American hero was that -- he certainly didn't make the world he was born into, and he was born into a world in which his interests as a white Pennsylvanian, later a white North Carolinian, later a Kentuckian, were in many ways diametrically opposed to the interests of the Indians whose homelands those places were.

On the other hand, Boone always attempted to make those moves in the utmost good faith, dealing directly with Indian people, respecting them, talking about the ways in which he admired their culture. And objecting, at the end of his life, to the fact that the reputation he had gathered during the Revolutionary era was as an Indian hunter. At the end of his life, he found his best friends among Indian people. He ended up in Missouri, among Indian people who had also exiled themselves to Missouri, as a result of the expansion of the United States."

When you look at the story closely, you find that although American history moved in a particular direction, and certainly for the Indians it was not a positive direction, at every step along the way there was a significant minority of white Americans who objected to that direction and who proposed an alternative strategy, a way of getting along. It was always contested, and there were points in time where that minority actually prevailed for long periods of time. The whole history of the fur traders on the American frontier, for example, was in general very positive; it was about finding and making connections. We tend to remember frontier history like a horror story. It ended up that way, but it wasn't that way at every turn.

The point I'm trying to make is that one of the roles I see for a historian in the United States -- and here I separate myself from, let's say, the Ward Churchills, who are only looking to tell stories about victims and villains -- is to resuscitate those points at which people faced with the dilemma of a whole new world attempted to do something good, and achieved something that was worth remembering.

You've suggested a couple of reasons for the difference, but I gather there's no clear-cut historical understanding of this question. Why did the French get along with the Indians so much better?

Some people might like to suggest that the French national character was more accepting, but you can certainly find instances where the French would be just as brutal. My own interpretation is that Roman Catholicism was extremely important and the role of commerce was extremely important."

My Southern Family

Col. Daniel BOONE

22 Oct 1734 - 26 Sep 1820

ID Number: I86054

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Frances BRISCOE

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I50675

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Andrew COWSERT

1763 - ____

ID Number: I78817

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Sarah Mary CROUCH

ABT 1730 - ____

ID Number: I38075

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Iverson M. ELLZEY

5 Jul 1853 - 2 Dec 1922

ID Number: I23101

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Richard KEMPE

ABT 1660 - ____

ID Number: I2315

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Drucilla KENNERLY

21 Sep 1810 - 22 Sep 1879

ID Number: I94738

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Mildred LIGHTFOOT

11 Feb 1751 - 1 May 1799

ID Number: I73450

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Ventriss Glancey PALMER

ABT 1902 - ____

ID Number: I63279

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Rueben C. RICKETTS

ABT 1830 - ____

ID Number: I25471

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Frances "Frankie" STEWART

ABT 1794 - ____

ID Number: I69534

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