American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky\'s frontier wars.
Craig Thompson Friend explains how frontier terror framed that heroism, undermining the egalitarian promise of Ke.
Spanning the period from the 1720s when Ohio River valley Indians returned to their homeland to the American defeat of the British and their Indian allies in the War of 1812, Kentucke\'s Frontiers examines the political, military, religious, and public memory narratives of early Kentucky.
American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky\'s frontier wars