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Frontier Kentucky Hardcover - 1993

by Rice, Otis K

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Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0813118409 . The author traces the early history of Kentucky to the end of the Revolutionary War. Contains an index and a bibliography in the rear. Original green cloth publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; Maps & Photos; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 139 pages .
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  • Title Frontier Kentucky
  • Author Rice, Otis K
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kentucky, Lexington
  • Date 1993
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 21109
  • ISBN 9780813118406 / 0813118409
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.84 x 5.73 x 0.69 in (22.45 x 14.55 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Kentucky
  • Library of Congress subjects Kentucky - History - To 1792
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93007821
  • Dewey Decimal Code 976.902

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From the rear cover

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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About the author

Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.

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