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Frontier Kentucky /
Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being. 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 H...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1993]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 A Pawn on the International Chessboard; 2 The Realm of the Indian and the Hunter; 3 The Advance into Kentucky; 4 A Year of Crisis; 5 Corporate Enterprise and Individual Initiative; 6 The Revolutionary War Years; 7 The Seeds of a Commonwealth; Bibliographical Note; Index.