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Rice Otis K. |
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Frontier Kentucky / / Otis K. Rice |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1993 |
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©1993 |
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0-8131-8536-X |
0-8131-5944-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-[132] and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 A Pawn on the International Chessboard; 2 The Realm of the Indian and the Hunter; 3 The Advance into Kentucky; 4 A Year of Crisis; 5 Corporate Enterprise and Individual Initiative; 6 The Revolutionary War Years; 7 The Seeds of a Commonwealth; Bibliographical Note; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 end of the Revolutionary War. He deals with four major themes: the great imperial rivalry between Engla |
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