Manufacturer: University Press of KentuckyWritten By: Otis K. Rice, Stephen W. Brown
Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, contemporary newspapers, and other documentary evidence, Otis Rice here presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend.
Manufacturer: University Press of KentuckyWritten By: Otis K. Rice
Kentucky dates its settled history from the founding of Harrodsburg in 1774 and of Boonesborough in 1775. But the drama of frontier Kentucky had its beginnings a full century before the arrival of James Harrod and Daniel Boone. The early history of the Bluegrass state is a colorful and significant chapter in the expansion of the American frontier and an important part of the development of the ...