Westward Into Kentucky

by TRABUE, DANIEL; Young, Chester Raymond; Smith, Daniel Blake

• ISBN13: 9780813191195
• ISBN10: 081319119X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

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 Piedmont and frontier Kentucky. His notes on the settling of Kentucky touch on many important moments in the opening of the Bluegrass region. Chester Raymond Young (1920--1999) was professor of history and chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Daniel Blake Smith is professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(36)
THE NARRATIVE OF DANIEL TRABUE
The Huguenot Heritage	37	(7)
A Martial Introduction to the Kentucky Wilderness	44	(7)
Disruptive Indian Incursions	51	(6)
The ``Big Siege'' of Boonesborough	57	(12)
The ``Hard Winter'' of 1779--1780	69	(10)
The Captivity and Escape of Two Trabue Brothers	79	(16)
Militia Service in Old Virginia	95	(11)
Wartime Stress on Civilian Life	106	(8)
Yorktown and War's End	114	(14)
The Separate Baptists of Revolutionary Virginia	128	(6)
Postwar Conditions in Trans-Appalachia	134	(12)
Violence on the Kentucky Frontier	146	(9)
Notes	155	(45)
Bibliographical Essay	200	(9)
Index	209