The hunters of Kentucky
Subtitle: a narrative history of America's first Far West, 1750-1792
By: Ted Franklin Belue.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Mechanicsburg, PA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky.; Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography.; Kentucky -- History -- To 1792.; Kentucky -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: xv, 315 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-304) and index.
Map on lining papers.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Prologue : The contested land, 1200-1744; title: Forbidding gateway; title: First interlude : Wars & rumors of wars; title: Odysseus of the middle ground; title: Second interlude : Crucible of fire; title: Deer slayers & Fincastle surveyors; title: Third interlude : The long hunters; title: Into western waters; title: Fourth interlude : Warfare & tactics; title: The pathfinder; title: Fifth interlude : From Boone to Bumppo to Poe; title: Huguenot Long Knife; title: Sixth interlude : Buffalo for the killing; title: To earn one's freedom; title: Seventh interlude : Killing Pompey; title: Intrigue on Green River; title: Eighth interlude : The "Kentucky" rifle; title: Terror in the Bluegrass; title: Ninth interlude : "Aping the manner of savages"; title: Reckonings & resolutions; title: Epilogue : The first shall be last; title: Appendix A : Kanta-Ke : a selected chronology; title: Appendix B : "Suffering traders'" inventories, c. 1748-56