The voice of the frontier John Bradford's Notes on Kentucky / Thomas D. Clark, editor.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1993.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- F454 .V653 1993
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; John Bradford's ""Notes on Kentucky""; 1. Opening the Way West; 2. The Long Hunters; 3. The Beckoning Land; 4. Opening the Great Western Road; 5. A Wilderness Ordeal; 6. Clark of the Ohio; 7. Raiding the Chillicothe Villages; 8. Claiming the Land, Safeguarding the Frontier; 9. The Horrors at Ruddle's and Hinkston's Forts; 10. Clark's Raid against the Piqua Towns; 11. Bravery under Siege; 12. Death on the Elkhorn; 13. Bryan's Station; 14. Tragedy at the Blue Licks; 15. Retaliation and a Step toward Statehood.
16. The Resolution to Achieve Statehood17. ""To the Honorable General Assembly of Virginia""; 18. Resisting a Persistent Enemy; 19. Converting the District to Statehood; 20. ""The Obstinate Inattention of Congress""; 21. The Downing Caper; 22. The ""Infamous Jay Treaty""; 23. Robert Patterson's Memoir; 24. Founding of the Kentucky Gazette; 25. ""A Melancholy Experience at Statemaking""; 26. The Enemy at the Door; 27. Horse Stealing; 28. ""Sinister Political Design"" at Work?; 29. A Quest in New Orleans; 30. The Lurking Enemy; 31. The Fine Hand of James Wilkinson.
32. The Bloody Ordeal of the Kentucky Frontier33. Governor Randolph's Message; 34. The Stalking Enemy along Road and River; 35. The Hubble Expedition; 36. Setting the Date for Statehood; 37. The Western Defense Council; 38. Wilkinson's Drive against the ""Oubache""; 39. St. Clair's Dreary March to Defeat; 40. A New State, a New Governor, a New Beginning; 41. To ""Gentlemen of the Senate and House""; 42. H.H. Brackenridge on the Indian Problem; 43. Defense of the Western Attitude; 44. A Sounding Horn and Hallooing; 45. Horse Thieves, Raiders, and the Infernal Excise Duty.
46. The Democratic Society47. The Last Stand of the Ohio Tribes; 48. Harassed Kentuckians; 49. ""To the Inhabitants of Western America""; 50. Resolving the Western Problems; 51. The Grand French Design; 52. The Founding of Transylvania University; 53A. The Seeds of Controversy; 53B. Transylvania Tends to Business; 54. The Holley Years at Transylvania; 55A. The Age of the Bigots; 55B. The Holley Legacy; 56. ""A Numerous Meeting of Respectable People""; 57. British Encroachment in the Northwest; 58. The French Conspiracy; 59. The Wayne-Campbell Exchanges.
60. Whitley, Blount, and the Southern Tribes61. Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Chickasaw; 62. A Young Nation Asserts Its Rights; 63. Ending Kentucky's Indian Menace; 64. The Treaty of Greenville; 65. Reactions to the Jay and Pinckney Treaties; 66. Open the Great Mississippi; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's Notes on Kentucky --
Includes bibliographies and index.
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