"Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier"--by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin--the explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power

  

Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world.

This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and red, who witnessed it.

This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Reviews

"Clavin and Drury return with an enlightening biography of Daniel Boone set against the backdrop of 18th-century America’s conflicts with England and Native tribes. [They] successfully separate fact from fiction while keeping the pages turning. History buffs will be entertained." ―Publishers Weekly

"Popular historians Drury and Clavin deliver a ripsnortin’ tale of the early frontier and its first and most powerful legend. [Blood and Treasure] offers a vivid account of Boone’s frontier years, one that may not be for the faint of heart." ―Kirkus

“A ripping yarn.” ―Laura Miller, Salon

“Vivid…Lively…A tale of lies, trickery, and brutal slaughter.” ―Christopher Corbett, The Wall Street Journal

“A page-turner…the narrative has a remarkable immediacy.” ―Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

“Exquisitely told…remarkably detailed.” ―USA Today

"Filled with an overabundance of details ..." ―Dallas Morning News

"Drury and Clavin have now given us the fullest and most readable account ... against which all subsequent efforts must be measured." ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Founding Brothers

"The word 'epic' is overused these days. Not here. This is big, blazing history writ large." ―S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon

 

Bob Drury

 

Men's Health Contributing Editor and Military Correspondent Bob Drury has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Darfur among other sites. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of nine nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestselling HALSEY'S TYPHOON, LAST MEN OUT, and THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY, the recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's 2010 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction.

He lives at the Jersey Shore.

http://www.rfxdrury.com/index.html

TOM CLAVIN

 

TOM CLAVIN was born in the Bronx and grew up on Long Island. After studies at Suffolk County Community College, University of Southern California, SUNY Albany, and SUNY Stony Brook, he emerged with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in English and Literature.

In the newspaper business, Tom was a reporter for The New York Times, served as managing editor at The East Hampton Star, was the editor-in-chief of The Independent group of weekly newspapers, and was a columnist and contributing writer at the Press News Group on eastern Long Island. As a freelance writer he wrote for several prominent magazines on a variety of topics, including Men's Journal, Smithsonian, Parade, Reader's Digest, Golf, Cosmopolitan, and Manhattan. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association.

Four of his books have been New York Times best sellers: Dodge City, The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey's Typhoon, and The Last Stand of Fox Company. Other recent titles that have received popular and critical acclaim include The DiMaggios, Lucky 666, Last Men Out, Gil Hodges, Roger Maris, Being Ted Williams, and Reckless. The trade paperback edition of Valley Forge, published by Simon and Schuster, was released in October 2018, will be available this November, and Wild Bill was published by St. Martin's Press in February 2019. Also due out this November, from Hanover Square Press, is All Blood Runs Red.

Tom is a full-time resident of Sag Harbor.

https://www.tomclavin.com/