The voice of the frontier : John Bradford's Notes on Kentucky /
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| Author / Creator: | Bradford, John, 1747-1830 |
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| Imprint: | Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1993. |
| Description: | xxxvi, 386 p. : port. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1425876 |
Table of Contents:
- John Bradford's "Notes on Kentucky"
- 1. Opening the Way West
- 2. The Long Hunters
- 3. The Beckoning Land
- 4. Opening the Great Western Road
- 5. A Wilderness Ordeal
- 6. Clark of the Ohio
- 7. Raiding the Chillicothe Villages
- 8. Claiming the Land, Safeguarding the Frontier
- 9. The Horrors at Ruddle's and Hinkston's Forts
- 10. Clark's Raid against the Piqua Towns
- 11. Bravery under Siege
- 12. Death on the Elkhorn
- 13. Bryan's Station
- 14. Tragedy at the Blue Licks
- 15. Retaliation and a Step toward Statehood
- 16. The Resolution to Achieve Statehood
- 17. "To the Honorable General Assembly of Virginia"
- 18. Resisting a Persistent Enemy
- 19. Converting the District to Statehood
- 20. "The Obstinate Inattention of Congress"
- 21. The Downing Caper
- 22. The "Infamous Jay Treaty"
- 23. Robert Patterson's Memoir
- 24. Founding of the Kentucky Gazette
- 25. "A Melancholy Experience at Statemaking"
- 26. The Enemy at the Door
- 27. Horse Stealing
- 28. "Sinister Political Design" at Work?
- 29. A Quest in New Orleans
- 30. The Lurking Enemy
- 31. The Fine Hand of James Wilkinson
- 32. The Bloody Ordeal of the Kentucky Frontier
- 33. Governor Randolph's Message
- 34. The Stalking Enemy along Road and River
- 35. The Hubble Expedition
- 36. Setting the Date for Statehood
- 37. The Western Defense Council
- 38. Wilkinson's Drive against the "Oubache"
- 39. St. Clair's Dreary March to Defeat
- 40. A New State, a New Governor, a New Beginning
- 41. To "Gentlemen of the Senate and House"
- 42. H.H. Brackenridge on the Indian Problem
- 43. Defense of the Western Attitude
- 44. A Sounding Horn and Hallooing Indians
- 45. Horse Thieves, Raiders, and the Infernal Excise Duty
- 46. The Democratic Society
- 47. The Last Stand of the Ohio Tribes
- 48. Harassed Kentuckians
- 49. "To the Inhabitants of Western America"
- 50. Resolving the Western Problems
- 51. The Grand French Design
- 52. The Founding of Transylvania University
- 53A. The Seeds of Controversy
- 53B. Transylvania Tends to Business
- 54. The Holley Years at Transylvania
- 55A. The Age of the Bigots
- 55B. The Holley Legacy
- 56. "A Numerous Meeting of Respectable People"
- 57. British Encroachment in the Northwest
- 58. The French Conspiracy
- 59. The Wayne-Campbell Exchanges
- 60. Whitley, Blount, and the Southern Tribes
- 61. Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Chickasaw
- 62. A Young Nation Asserts Its Rights
- 63. Ending Kentucky's Indian Menace
- 64. The Treaty of Greenville
- 65. Reactions to the Jay and Pinckney Treaties
- 66. Open the Great Mississippi.