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• catalog abstract ""What was it like for early pioneers to migrate to the Ohio Valley? Running Mad for Kentucky features more than a dozen firsthand accounts of travelers as they crossed the Appalachian Mountains in the eighteenth century. While many published travel diaries have focused on the Overland Trail to California, editor Ellen Eslinger highlights an often overlooked part of Kentucky and frontier history." "Surviving trans-Appalachian accounts are rare, and the accounts in this volume describe the journey over Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road and down the Ohio River toward the "New Eden" of Kentucky. Settlers often found that the route west was fraught with danger, and they describe the challenges and hardships they faced during their travels. The settlers' accounts vividly depict a region that had captured the imagination of a young nation and describe the risks that pioneers were willing to endure to put down roots in the new wilderness." "Eslinger's extensive introduction considers the major aspects of the journey west. In addition to explaining how Americans had made the decision to leave established communities in the East, she explores the reasons for communal protection and for pioneer preferences for certain types of travel. She also describes the sights and experiences early settlers encountered and discusses how travel in the region changed throughout the century as Native American tribes acquired weapons from their interactions with the French and British during the Revolutionary War." "Running Mad for Kentucky is an invaluable contribution to the history and understanding of early Kentucky and the first frontier. The volume also brings to light a less-understood chapter in the nation's westward development by utilizing numerous letters and oral histories of trans-Appalachian travelers to examine the historic consequences of a pivotal period in the saga of the creation of the United States."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13315555.
• catalog coverage "Kentucky Description and travel.".
• catalog coverage "Kentucky History To 1792.".
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""Eslinger's extensive introduction considers the major aspects of the journey west. In addition to explaining how Americans had made the decision to leave established communities in the East, she explores the reasons for communal protection and for pioneer preferences for certain types of travel. She also describes the sights and experiences early settlers encountered and discusses how travel in the region changed throughout the century as Native American tribes acquired weapons from their interactions with the French and British during the Revolutionary War."".
• catalog description ""Running Mad for Kentucky is an invaluable contribution to the history and understanding of early Kentucky and the first frontier. The volume also brings to light a less-understood chapter in the nation's westward development by utilizing numerous letters and oral histories of trans-Appalachian travelers to examine the historic consequences of a pivotal period in the saga of the creation of the United States."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Surviving trans-Appalachian accounts are rare, and the accounts in this volume describe the journey over Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road and down the Ohio River toward the "New Eden" of Kentucky. Settlers often found that the route west was fraught with danger, and they describe the challenges and hardships they faced during their travels. The settlers' accounts vividly depict a region that had captured the imagination of a young nation and describe the risks that pioneers were willing to endure to put down roots in the new wilderness."".
• catalog description ""What was it like for early pioneers to migrate to the Ohio Valley? Running Mad for Kentucky features more than a dozen firsthand accounts of travelers as they crossed the Appalachian Mountains in the eighteenth century. While many published travel diaries have focused on the Overland Trail to California, editor Ellen Eslinger highlights an often overlooked part of Kentucky and frontier history."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277) and index.".
• catalog description "The Revolutionary Era -- William Calk, 1775 -- Nicholas Cresswell, 1775 -- James Nourse, 1775 -- James Smith, 1783 -- Peter Muhlenburg, 1784 -- Postwar Expansion -- Samuel Shepard, 1787 -- Mary Coburn Dewees, 1788 -- John May, 1788 -- Joel Watkins, 1789 -- A New Era Of Peace -- Moses Austin, 1796 -- Francis Baily, 1796 -- David Meade, 1796 -- Andrew Ellicott, 1796.".
• catalog extent "xi, 288 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Running mad for Kentucky.".
• catalog identifier "0813123135 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Running mad for Kentucky.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,".
• catalog relation "Running mad for Kentucky.".
• catalog spatial "Kentucky Description and travel.".
• catalog spatial "Kentucky History To 1792.".
• catalog spatial "Kentucky".
• catalog spatial "Kentucky.".
• catalog subject "976.9/02 22".
• catalog subject "F454 .R86 2004".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Kentucky.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers Kentucky Diaries.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Revolutionary Era -- William Calk, 1775 -- Nicholas Cresswell, 1775 -- James Nourse, 1775 -- James Smith, 1783 -- Peter Muhlenburg, 1784 -- Postwar Expansion -- Samuel Shepard, 1787 -- Mary Coburn Dewees, 1788 -- John May, 1788 -- Joel Watkins, 1789 -- A New Era Of Peace -- Moses Austin, 1796 -- Francis Baily, 1796 -- David Meade, 1796 -- Andrew Ellicott, 1796.".
• catalog title "Running mad for Kentucky : frontier travel accounts / edited by Ellen Eslinger.".
• catalog type "Diaries. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".