The Shawnee

By Jerry E. Clark

Book Overview

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 Fa

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191807
• ISBN13: 9780813191805
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher