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Westward into Kentucky [electronic resource] : The Narrative of Daniel Trabue / edited by Chester Raymond Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Virginia.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.
- Pioneers--Virginia--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Pioneers--Kentucky--Biography.
- Virginia--Biography.
- Virginia.
- Kentucky--Biography.
- Kentucky.
- Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Virginia--Description and travel.
- Kentucky--Description and travel.
- Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840.
- Trabue, Daniel.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In his youth Daniel Trabue (1760--1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a founder. A keen observer of people and events, Trabue captures experiences of everyday life in both the
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; The Narrative of Daniel Trabue; 1. The Huguenot Heritage; 2. A Martial Introduction to the Kentucky Wilderness; 3. Disruptive Indian Incursions; 4. The ""Big Siege"" of Boones borough; 5. The ""Hard Winter"" of1779-1780; 6. The Captivity and Escape of Two Trabue Brothers; 7. Militia Service in Old Virginia; 8. Wartime Stress on Civilian Life; 9. Yorktown and War's End; 10. The Separate Baptists of Revolutionary Virginia; 11. Postwar Conditions in Trans-Appalachia; 12. Violence on the Kentucky Frontier; Notes
- Bibliographical EssayIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [200]-208.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-9119-X
- 0-8131-4926-6
- OCLC:
- 767543671
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