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Kentucky's Frontier Highway
Raitz, Karl; O'Malley, Nancy
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Description for Kentucky's Frontier Highway
Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 907.
Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of the Bluegrass.
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Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of the Bluegrass.
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Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813136646
SKU
V9780813136646
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99-50
About Raitz, Karl; O'Malley, Nancy
Karl Raitz is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Kentucky and author of Bourbon’s Backroads: A Journey through Kentucky’s Distilling Landscape. He is coeditor of The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present and coauthor of Rock Fences of the Bluegrass.
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