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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, c2021.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Eureka Non-Fiction	976.902 Pea	---	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
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.
Subject	Boone, Jemima -- Captivity.
	Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.
	Indian captivities -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
	Indians of North America -- Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
	Kentucky -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN	9780062937780 (hardcover)
	0062937782 (hardcover)