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...Shawnee squaw), moderates a number of storybook feats. But in the main his 480-page dead-eye biography portrays Boone as a deserving hero. Not even adolescents will be disillusioned by the true story of Boone's escape from Chief Blackfish, his wily strategy in the siege of Boonesborough, his exploits as an officer of the Kentucky militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elbower | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Ramona (see above) the villains are land-grabbers. This time they are silk-breeched Colonial Virginians who legislate an act appropriating the Kentucky land which the great Boone appropriated from the Indians. With 40 families at his buck skin back, Boone treks over the Cumberlands, founds the village of Boonesborough. The land is as fertile as the Red skins are hostile. Stout Boone protects the settlers in many a brush with Indians, kills more than one warrior, narrowly misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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