Frontier Kentucky

By Otis K. Rice

Book Overview

" 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 Harrod and Daniel Boone. The early history of the Bluegrass state is a colorful and significant chapter in the expansion of the American frontier. Rice traces the development of Kentucky through the

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813118409
• ISBN13: 9780813118406
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher