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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Exciting, action-packed account of the expedition to chart the vast unknown lands of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. A perilous journey made by undaunted men who faced hostile Indians, prairie fires, floods, heat and thirst, illness, famine, sub-zero weather, and other perils. A "thrilling account of one of the most magnificent expeditions in all history . absorbing and inspirational from start to finish."--New York Times Book Review.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Even those well-read in the American Revolution are probably
unaware of the extensive and often crucial espionage developed by
both the British and Continental armies during the conflict.
Besides reexamining in fresh perspective such well-known figures as
Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold, and John Andre, the
author, a former general staff intelligence officer in World War
II, reveals the exploits and tribulations of scores of other spies:
Ann Bates, the Tory agent who spied at Washington's headquarters
and who, when fleeing for her life, paused to count American
artillery; the high-ranking traitor Dr. Benjamin Church, the
Continental Army's Director General of Hospitals, caught as a
result of a careless mistress; Lydia Darragh, the Quaker housewife
who spied for Washington himself; Sergeant Major John Champe, who
posed as a deserter from the rebel army in order to capture
Benedict Arnold; and many others. From the plot to kidnap George
Washington to the fall of Yorktown, here are the clandestine
activities of the spies, counterspies, and double agents who risked
life and honor fighting a silent, anonymous shadow war.
In his introduction to this edition of "Daniel Boone: Master of the
Wilderness," Michael A. Lofaro, a professor of English at the
University of Tennessee and the author of "The Life and Adventures
of Daniel Boone," assesses John Bakeless's achievement: "After
fifty years his is still the standard by which all other
biographies of the frontiersman are judged."
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