The Political Beginnings of Kentucky: A Narrative of Public Events Bearing on the History of That State Up to the Time of Its Admission Into American Union (Classic Reprint) by John Mason Brown (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Political Beginnings of Kentucky: A Narrative of Public Events Bearing on the History of That State Up to the Time of Its Admission Into American Union The History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky has attracted many pens. Elements of romantic adventure, of frontier life, of peril encountered and overcome, of daring deeds, crowd the story of its earlier years. Universal interest has attached to the names of her pioneers. Their conflict was maintained in an unexplored and scarcely kwn wilderness. Hundreds of miles of forest and mountain separated them from the settlements on the frontier of the older States from which they went forth, ever westward, to subdue and occupy the plains beyond the Alleghanies. The game that furnished sport and subsistence to the hunter was numerous beyond all former story. It was in kind different from that which the Atlantic slope afforded. Great bison and tall elks roamed in countless bands. The Indians, whose hunting ground the new country was, were of higher type than those whom the colonists had encountered at the seaboard. The Shawnees, Wyandots, Cherokees, and allied tribes had many warriors whose sagacity in council was t inferior to their bravery in the field. The task before the adventurers in Kentucky was an arduous and a ble one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.