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April 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

How the First Settlers in Kentucky Lived

They were scattered over large areas, and, as elsewhere in the southwest, the county and not the town became the governmental unit.Continuing Daniel

April 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

First Settlement in Kentucky

Had it not been for Boone and Henderson, it is most unlikely that the land would have been settled at all until after the Revolutionary war, when

April 12, 2019 Leave a Comment

On the Trail to Kentucky

Every man who has had the misfortune to drive a pack-train in thick timber, or along a bad trail, will appreciate keenly the following incident, which

April 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

A Dark and Bloody Ground

What Dragging  Canoe said was true, and the whites were taught by years of long warfare that Kentucky was indeed what the Cherokees called it, a dark

April 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: An Island in the Wilderness.IntroductionBack when I (Jack Le Moine)

April 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

La Salle Sails for France

Early in the autumn, he left Tonty in command of the rock, bade farewell to his savage retainers, and descended to Quebec.Previously in The

April 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 21

La Salle looked down from his rock on a concourse of wild human life.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our special project

March 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

Louis XIV Proclaimed Sovereign of the Great West

On that day, the realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our special

March 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 20

Again they embarked; and with every stage of their adventurous progress the mystery of this vast New World was more and more unveiled.Previously in

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