American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by
Kentucky s frontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when
Ohio River valley Indians returned to their homeland to the
American defeat of the British and their Indian allies in the War
of 1812, Kentucke s Frontiers examines the political, military,
religious, and public memory narratives of early Kentucky. Craig
Thompson Friend explains how frontier terror framed that heroism,
undermining the egalitarian promise of Kentucke and transforming a
trans-Appalachian region into an Old South state. From county
courts and the state legislature to church tribunals and village
stores, patriarchy triumphed over racial and gendered equality,
creating political and economic opportunity for white men by
denying it for all others. Even in remembering their frontier past,
Kentuckians abandoned the egalitarianism of frontier life and
elevated white males to privileged places in Kentucky history and
memory."
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