In pages as exciting as an old dime novel, John Bakeless introduces to us all Daniel Boone--trapper, Indian fighter, contact to the forest people, surveyor of the Dark and Bloody Ground, law-giver to unruly frontier settlers, pathfinder, hunter... a figure already half-legendary in his own time. To explore the legend and recreate reality is John Bakeless's achievement in this unmatched adult biography of a man and an era. Drawing upon much hitherto unpublished material, he sorts fact and fancy to provide this documented portrait...and at the same time, a stirring chronicle that captures the spirit of these uniquely America, heroic decades.