Running Mad for Kentucky: Frontier Travel Accounts
"Named a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title." --"An effective introduction to travel narratives of the Appalachian migration. Eslinger should be commended for bringing these sources together in an attractive, well annotated, and easily digested volume." -- Glenn Crothers, University of Louisville, Journal of the American Studies Associ""Eslinger has previously produced solid scholarship on the Virginia backcountry and the Kentucky frontier, and her introduction to this volume is no different.... [She] has edited the travel accounts themselves well." -- Ohio Valley History" --""Ellen Eslinger's Running Mad for Kentucky: Frontier Travel Accounts is an excellent collection of thirteen first-person accounts by individuals who made the journey from the East into Kentucky between 1775 and 1796." -- Kentucky Ancestors" --