When you think of Daniel Boone, do you think of the simple woodsman, hand on rifle, wearing a coonskin hat?

It’s easy to imagine American frontiersman Colonel Daniel Boone as a simple soul, at one with nature, spending his days roaming the woods, hunting for game and, when it became necessary, fighting hostile natives.

But the evidence is that Daniel Boone was a far more complex and interesting man than comic books, a television series or even the novels of James Fenimore Cooper portrayed.

Here is the book that leaves Daniel Boone the legend behind to reveal the far more intriguing true stories of Daniel Boone the man.