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The story of Kentucky - Rice S. Eubank
Rice S. Eubank
The story of Kentucky
EAN 8596547129899
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Table of Contents
Geography and First White Visitor
The Virginians and Daniel Boone
Beginnings of Settlements
How the Pioneers Lived and Fought
George Rogers Clark and the Revolution
Later Days of Famous Pioneers
After the Revolution
Progress
Early Schools and the First Seminary
State Government and Foreign Intrigue
Indian Wars and War of 1812
Internal Improvements
Kentucky and Slavery
The Civil War and Later
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Geography and First White Visitor
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Lying west of the Allegheny Mountains and extending westward for some three hundred miles, bounded, for the most part, on the north by the Ohio River and extending to the Mississippi, lies the State of Kentucky. In its eastern portion, constituting nearly one-third of its area, the surface is broken, and so high as to be termed mountainous. A large area occupying the central third, and in the early day mostly a prairie land, is now known as the famous Blue Grass section. The western third of the State is practically level, being but a few feet above the sea, and cypress swamps are not infrequent. This section is commonly termed The Pennyrile.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, Kentucky was a portion of that unexplored western realm belonging by grant to the State of Virginia, and designated as a part of Fincastle County. The eastern portion in the early day abounded in wild game common to the Appalachian forests. The undulating grass lands in the central part of the State provided ample grazing for the herds of buffalo and deer that were found there at the time of the coming of man. The skeletons that have been exhumed indicate that it was the feeding ground of the giant mastodon before the discovery of America.
About two hundred years after Columbus discovered America, a young man twenty-two years of age came to [pg 4]Canada from the Old World. On his arrival he learned from the settlers and Indians the possibility of a passage to the South Sea, which they then thought the Gulf of Mexico to be. Desirous of making this journey, and lured by the possibility of reaching the Pacific by water, he secured the assistance of Indians and some white hunters as guides and set out upon an expedition of exploration into the country concerning which he had heard such fascinating stories.
Crossing the St. Lawrence and traveling southward, he came to what is now called Allegheny River. Securing birchbark canoes, he and his party descended the Allegheny to