num_pages: 596
description: "September 26, 1775. We arrived at Boonesborough."It was Kitty Gentry's mother who wrote that entry in her journal, but if the sixteen-year-old Kitty had put her quill to parchment, it would have said, "We have come home." She and the other settlers had journeyed through the perilous Cumberland Gap to the lush, green wilderness where Daniel Boone had established Fort Boonesborough only months before.But the fort and the Gentrys' farm stood on the sacred hunting grounds of the proud and dangerous Shawnee. And when the Indians attacked the white settlers, the horrified young Kitty was forced to leave her beloved farm to seek refuge within the walls of the fort.It was there that her real life as a founding mother of Kentucky began. She would defense Boonesborough alongside the men and start its first school. She would survive tragedy and heart-wrenching grief. And she would find the all-encompassing passion of great love - not once, but twice - as the burgeoning territory became a state.
language: English
title: Oh, Kentucky!
titlecomplete: Oh, Kentucky!
genres: Romance, Fiction, American History, Westerns, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, 18th Century
ratings_count: 291
places: Kentucky
series: Gentry
publisher: Ballantine Books