Daniel Boone

reader leaves a lot to be desired

(3.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

good information in the book but the reader does not pronounce locations correctly, that may seem trivial but it's very annoying

(5 stars)

cjg

Superbly written and superbly read. I learned a lot. I recommended it to my grandson for the historical value.

Interesting, but racist

(4 stars)

DadMan

This book seems like it is 50% a biography of Daniel Boone, and 50% an expression of what life was like on the frontier. The book does a good job of portraying the hopelessly violent relationship between the settlers and natives. A few people would do something bad, and the victims would react by striking back at those who hurt them or maybe at random victims. Everyone would suffer, but ultimately the natives would lose the most. The book in directly expresses the injustice of the legal system. Pioneers would acquire land, politicians apparently made rules that guaranteed that the pioneers would not be able to obtain credible deeds for their land. Eventually, speculators would take the land away after the pioneers had cleared the land of trees, predators, and natives. I am left believing that the speculators paid the politicians to write laws that guaranteed their ability to steal the land from the pioneers. The reader of this audiobook is consistently perky and bright, like a second grade teacher, talking to the parents of her students on open-house night. Sometimes, it seemed out of place when she was describing atrocities. Although this book does occasionally recognize injustices to the Native Americans, and recognizes acts of honor and intelligence from them, it primarily refers to them is ignorant savages. It is pretty racist. I recommend that you listen to the book, but don’t forget that the author is racist against the Indians.

Good Reader, Exciting Frontier Stories

(5 stars)

Preston E

For those who enjoy the imagery of woodland log cabins and musket clad pioneers, this is a fun book to get lost in. It details some of the early settlers' conflicts with the Native Americans. While the author acknowledges the mistreatment of the natives by the white settlers, he still shows plenty of bias towards the settlers. Still, he seems to be genuine in telling the facts so far as he understands them. The book rambles a bit chronologically, but it gives many examples of frontier life during Daniel Boone's life; a great escape into a more rugged and exciting way of life. There is one reader the entire time and she does an excellent job.

(5 stars)

Lizzy Darcy

This is the most detailed and grippingly adventuresome Boone biography on Libravox. It compliments the other two. The reader is very pleasant and any mistakes in pronunciation are humorous, but not distracting.

(5 stars)

Jules

very interesting and well read. it seems hard to imagine that wilderness and men like this really existed , I feel saddened it all had to change.

Boone

(5 stars)

Chalood

Very good. Wish it was longer. Filled with many daily life details. Also his later life. Excellently read

Very well done..

(5 stars)

Hodge

A very good book. A great job on the reading and recording of this book..