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Daniel BooneJames Daugherty
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Daniel Boone

94 pagesFirst published 19391 edition
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Awarded the John Newbery Medal 'for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children' in 1940" James Daugherty has dipped his pen and his brush into our nation's most dynamic character whose life adventures are more exciting than the shadowy legend his name brings to mind. Daniel Boone was a farmer who couldn't stay put. Something was always pulling him westward into new and mysterious lands, and when this pull got so strong that he could no longer ignore it, and his wife and children could not persuade him to stay, he just went, with his toes pointing into the West and…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
HardcoverViking Juvenile1971—9780670255900
PioneersNewbery MedalJuvenile literatureBiographyFrontier and pioneer life