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Author Pearl, Matthew, author.

Title The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America / Matthew Pearl.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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Edition First edition.
Description 272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Contents Cast of characters -- Prologue -- The taking. Duck ; Bloody ground ; The plan ; Ends of the Earth -- Retaliation. Fallout ; Rise of Blackfish ; Families -- The reckoning. Risen ; Before the thunder ; The last siege ; Aftershocks.
Summary Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Boone, Jemima -- Captivity.
Captivity. (OCoLC)fst01198611
Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Subject Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
Indian captivities -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Indian captivities. (OCoLC)fst00969063
Indians of North America -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
Subject Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. (OCoLC)fst00043596
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Kentucky -- Captivities -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN 9780062937780 (hardcover)
0062937782 (hardcover)
9780063118331 (paperback)
0063118335 (paperback)
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