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Book 2022

Taking of Jemima Boone

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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Published
2022
  • Captivity
  • Indian captivities
  • History
  • Indians of North America
  • Political kidnappings
  • United States Colonization

Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.