In collaboration with the History Book Festival, join us for a talk with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, authors of Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, an offering of the 2021 virtual History Book Festival.

Like many historical icons, Daniel Boone’s image in popular culture leans toward caricature. He was a frontiersman — arguably America’s first and greatest pathfinder — and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains became the stuff of legend. This book tells the unvarnished story of Boone’s life and the era that gave birth to a nation, illuminating the history of the early United States through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed it.

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is, Lucky 666, Halsey’s Typhoon, Last Men Out, and The Last Stand of Fox Company, which won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award. Both men have written extensively for newspapers and magazines and won several journalism awards.

We invite you to support the author by purchasing copy of their book from Browseabout Books. Call-in orders are accepted at (302) 226-2665 or you can stop by the store to purchase a copy. For store hours, please visit their website. Each copy purchased comes with a signed bookplate.

NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting.

If you have need assistance with registration or getting your Zoom invitation, please email the History Book Festival.

Basic written instructions for using Zoom may be found here and a brief video tutorial may be found here. Closed captioning is available for this session. Information on enabling closed captioning in Zoom may be found here.