Title Westward into Kentucky : the narrative of Daniel Trabue / edited by Chester Raymond Young ; with a new foreword by Daniel Blake Smith

Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840. SUBJECT Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840 fast Subject Pioneers -- Kentucky -- Biography Pioneers -- Virginia -- Biography Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Frontier and pioneer life Pioneers Travel SUBJECT Kentucky -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071959 Virginia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143759 Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143768 Kentucky -- Biography Virginia -- Biography Subject Kentucky United States Virginia Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Young, Chester Raymond, 1920-1999. ISBN 9780813149264 0813149266

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