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  TO MY CHILDREN

  EWART, LA VERNE, AND LOIS

  WHO HAVE EVER BEEN MY

  INSPIRING AUDIENCE



  [Illustration: KENTUCKY
  FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE CIVIL WAR]



  STORIES OF
  OLD KENTUCKY

  BY
  MARTHA GRASSHAM PURCELL

  AUTHOR OF "SETTLEMENTS AND CESSIONS OF LOUISIANA"

  MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
  PADUCAH, KENTUCKY

  [Illustration]

  AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
  NEW YORK   CINCINNATI   CHICAGO



  COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
  MARTHA GRASSHAM PURCELL.

  COPYRIGHT, 1915, IN GREAT BRITAIN.

  STORIES OF OLD KENTUCKY.
  E.P.




PREFACE


To be easily assimilated, our mental food, like our physical food,
should be carefully chosen and attractively served.

The history of the "Dark and Bloody Ground" teems with adventure and
patriotism. Its pages are filled with the great achievements, the heroic
deeds, and the inspiring examples of the explorers, the settlers, and
the founders of our state. In the belief that a knowledge of their
struggles and conquests is food that is both instructive and inspiring,
and with a knowledge that a text on history does not always attract, the
author sets before the youth of Kentucky these stories of some of her
great men.

This book is intended as both a supplementary reader and a text, for,
though in story form, the chapters are arranged chronologically, and
every fact recorded has been verified.

Thanks are due to the many friends who have granted access to papers of
historical value, to many others who have assisted in making this book