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Kentucky's Road to Statehood
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so unce...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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