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Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Jerry E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shawnee Indians > Social life and customs.
Shawnee Indians.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Shawnee (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Shawnee (Indiens) > Histoire.
Shawnee Indians > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not tolerate the presence of whites there. Settlers would remember the warning until 1794 and the Battle of the Fallen Timber. In The Shawnee, Jerry E. Clark eloquently recounts the bitter struggle between whit.
Physical Description:1 online resource (120 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780813148939

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