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Running mad for Kentucky : frontier travel accounts /

The crossing of America's first great divide -- the Appalachian Mountains -- has been a source of much fascination but has received little attention from modern historians. In the eighteenth century, the Wilderness Road and Ohio River routes into Kentucky presented daunting natural barriers and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eslinger, Ellen, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. The Revolutionary Era; Chapter 1. William Calk, 1775; Chapter 2. Nicholas Cresswell, 1775; Chapter 3. James Nourse, 1775; Chapter 4. James Smith, 1783; Chapter 5. Peter Muhlenberg, 1784; Part Two. Postwar Expansion; Chapter 6. Samuel Shepard, 1787; Chapter 7. Mary Coburn Dewees, 1788; Chapter 8. John May, 1788; Chapter 9. Joel Watkins, 1789; Part Three. A New Era of Peace; Chapter 10. Moses Austin, 1796; Chapter 11. Francis Baily, 1796; Chapter 12. David Meade, 1796. 
505 8 |a Chapter 13. Andrew Ellicott, 1796Notes; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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