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Title: The story of Kentucky

Author: Rice S. Eubank

Release Date: March 2, 2009 [Ebook #28239]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF KENTUCKY***

INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES

The Story of Kentucky

_By R. S. Eubank, A. B._

F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
DANSVILLE, N. Y.

_Copyright 1913, by F. A. Owen Publishing Co._

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

THE STORY OF KENTUCKY

Geography and First White Visitor

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