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 and an important part of the development of the
nation. In tracing this development of the territory now known as
Kentucky, Otis K. Rice follows its history to the end of the
Revolutionary War in 1783. He deals essentially with four major
themes: the great imperial rivalry between England and France in
the mid-eighteenth century for control of the Ohio Valley, of which
Kentucky is a part; the struggle of white settlers to possess lands
claimed by the Indians and the liquidation of Indian rights through
treaties and bloody conflicts; the importance of the land, the role
of the speculator, and the progress of settlement; the conquest of
a wilderness bountiful in its riches but exacting in its demands
and the planting of political, social, and cultural institutions.
Included are maps that show the changing boundaries of Kentucky as
it moved toward statehood.
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