{"product_id":"following-boones-trace","title":"Following Boone's Trace","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy today's standards, Colonial America wasn't exactly bursting at the seams, but it was an agrarian economy, and fertile, cheap land was highly valued. Thus, many entrepreneurs like Colonel Richard Henderson found the vast territory west of the Allegheny Mountains too enticing to pass up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis Transylvania Company could reap a fortune in land sales if only it could overcome resistance from Indians, similarly unfriendly political forces in Virginia, and the treacherous mountains. So Henderson hired Daniel Boone, the experienced long-hunter who was familiar with the territory, to carve a route into Kentucky for land-seekers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, 241 years later, author Neal O. Hammon has written\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFollowing Boone's Trace\u003c\/em\u003e, which precisely details that route Boone took through the wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHammon touches on interesting stories, the successes and failures, and the unintended consequences of Boone's journey — for which we all are richer. In the words of Richard Taylor, former Kentucky Poet Laureate, \"Hammon's meticulous, stubborn research makes him the dean of living Kentucky frontier historians.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kentucky where almost four and one-half million people live today is very different from the Bluegrass region that its forefathers — the intrepid pioneers of the eighteenth century — were drawn to explore and settle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut however much the physical features of the Bluegrass State are amended to accommodate its present population,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFollowing Boone's Trace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereminds us that the exciting legends of yesterday are still very much alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/collections\/neal-hammon\"\u003eNeal Hammon\u003c\/a\u003e \u0026amp; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/collections\/peter-holste\"\u003ePeter Holste\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePage Count: 144\u003cbr\u003eTrim Size: 5.5 x 8.5\u003cbr\u003ePublish Date: June 2016\u003cbr\u003eImprint: Butler Books\u003cbr\u003eGenre: History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHISTORY \/ United States \/ Colonial Period\u003cbr\u003eHISTORY \/ United States \/ State \u0026amp; Local \/ South \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Holste","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44947813269597,"sku":"9781941953303","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0294\/8484\/3101\/files\/following-boones-trace-24.jpg?v=1787748039","url":"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/products\/following-boones-trace","provider":"Sunbury Press Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}