Running mad for Kentucky : frontier travel accounts /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (303 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky. Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Diaries. Frontier and pioneer life. Pioneers. Travel. Kentucky -- History -- To 1792. Kentucky -- Description and travel. Kentucky. Diaries. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540265

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Other authors / contributors:	Eslinger, Ellen, 1956-
ISBN:	9780813147802 0813147808 9780813133799 9780813123134
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The crossing of America's first great divide -- the Appalachian Mountains -- has been a source of much fascination but has received little attention from modern historians. In the eighteenth century, the Wilderness Road and Ohio River routes into Kentucky presented daunting natural barriers and the threat of Indian attack. Running Mad for Kentucky brings this adventure to life. Primarily a collection of travel diaries, these day-to-day accounts illustrate the dangers thousands of Americans, adult and child, black and white, endured to establish roots in the wilderness. Ellen Eslinger's vivid a.

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