"Boone fought with George Washington in the Braddock campaign, served with Jefferson in the Virginia House of Burgesses and led Abraham Lincoln's grandfather into Kentucky... Boone hated coonskin caps; he never wore one. He died without owning an acre of the precious land he discovered....He was taken prisoner by the Shawnee war chief..but he outwitted his captors, escaped and led the defense of Boonesborough in an epic battle. In fact, Boone did more than any man in America to settle and hold the state of Kentucky. Yet after the siege, Boone was hauled before a court-martial and charged with treason...Boone was emphatically cleared of the charges- which was the handiwork of one embittered, paranoid enemy. The Long Hunter, a realistic account of the most famous of America's early pioneers, adds new depth to the traditional portrait of Daniel Boone- both as a source of new information and as a highly readable re-creation of a neglected period in our history"--from jacket flaps.