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...this story of the vague distances of our national history Miss Roberts has chosen to sing of those hardy men and women who fought their way arduously over Boone's trace into the promised land of Kentuck to found the beginnings of our great western empire...
...restless days of the Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used...
Diony Hall, daughter of Virginian pioneers, settles in what was still the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, marries her neighbor Berk Jarvis, goes with him the two-months' journey across the mountains into Kentuck, over the dim trail made by Explorer Daniel Boone. There they settle at Harrod's Fort, one of the three white settlements in the country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered...
Please to be informed there is no race track in operation in Cincinnati or in Hamilton County of which Cincinnati is the county seat. Latonia race track is not far from Cincinnati, but it is located in Kentuck, in which state, I understand, betting on race horses is not illegal...
...figures in detail are as follows: Massachusetts, 2033; New York, 498; Pennsylvania, 166; Ohio, 130; Maine, 113; Illinois, 107; Rhode Island, 103; New Hampshire, 75; New Jersey, 66; Missouri, 56; California, 47; Iowa, 45; Connecticut, 41; District of Columbia, 35; Indiana, 34; Kentuck, 33; Minnesota, 29; Colorado, 25; Wisconsin, 25; Maryland, 23; Michigan 20; Vermont, 20; Washington, 15; Kansas, 13; Alabama, 12; Tennessee, 12; Texas, 12; Georgia, 11; Virginia, 11; West Virginia, 11; South Carolina, 10; Louisiana, 10; North Carolina, 9; Nebraska, 9; Oklahoma, 8; Oregon, 8; South Dakota, 6; Utah, 6; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 4; Delaware, 3; New Mexico...