Kentucky Pioneers

Follows pioneer families along wilderness road to Kentucky. Shows their schools, recreation and everyday tasks, such as weaving, soap-making, cooking, carpentry and candle-making.


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Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky - Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
http://www.archive.org/stream/danielboonepione5713abbo#page/n5/mode/2up

Daniel Boone and the hunters of Kentucky - Bogart, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1888
http://www.archive.org/stream/danielboonehunters00boga#page/n9/mode/2up

Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions; with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc. - Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870
http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalsketch00colluoft#page/n13/mode/2up

Wooing and warring in the wilderness - Kirk, Charles D
"This book does not aspire to the dignity of a novel. Its pretence, if pretence it have, is to illustrated the domestic life of the early settlers of Kentucky, by a series of sketches of their manners and customs, somewhat rudely drawn, but with filial love and an earnest attempt at truthfulness"--To the reader
http://www.archive.org/stream/wooingwarringinw00kirk#page/n3/mode/2up