Trailing Daniel Boone - Softcover

Jones, Randell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976914964 ISBN 13: 9780976914969

Verlag: DANIEL BOONE FOOTSTEPS, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

One hundred years ago, the Daughters of the American Revolution left for us all a legacy of patriotic commemoration--Daniel Boone's Trail. During 1912-1915, the Daughters in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky erected 45 metal tablets across four hundred miles to honor the life of Daniel Boone and to mark for future generations his path through the Appalachian Mountain barrier, a path that enabled America's Western Movement. The idea for such a trail sprang from the creative mind of the industrious Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A patriotic public gathered to dedicate each marker, and newspapers eagerly wrote accounts of local ceremonies including the joint ceremony at Cumberland Gap attended by thousands. But the world did not stand still during this project, and the effort of the DAR took place against a backdrop of the Progressive Era, including presidential elections, campaigns for equal suffrage and women's right to vote, war in Europe, and the opening of the Panama Canal. This is a story that has been too long forgotten, one resurrected now from the pages of century-old newspapers, the records of the DAR, and a diligent search across the countryside to find the 27 surviving markers and to discover what happened to the 18 which have disappeared. Come follow the Daughters of a century ago as they mark Daniel Boone's Trail and help celebrate with them 125 years of service to America in 2015.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DANIEL BOONE FOOTSTEPS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0976914964
• ISBN 13: 9780976914969
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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