Kentucke's Frontiers

Index

Abenakis, 34 absentee landownership, 223–24 Adair, John, 227, 228 Adams, John, 66, 205 Adams, John Quincy, 275 African Americans: as consumers, 198; on frontier, 95–97; portrayed as­ inferior, 94–96; portrayed as savages , xxi, 125, 208, 218, 285–86; in­ revivalist churches, 236–37; threat of rebellion by, xxi, 125, 217–18, 247, 287; whites’ fear of, 292. See also slavery Agassiz, Louis, 264 Alanantowamiowee, 99, 214 Alien and Sedition Acts, 205, 206, 220 American Antiquarian Society, 260 American System, 219 Ancient Annals of Kentucky (Rafinesque), 264 Armstrong, John, 255 Arthur, Gabriel, 12 Articles of Agreement (1783), 164 Ashe, Thomas, 258 Athiamiowee, 2, 5, 150, 223 Attakullaculla (Cherokee chief), 73 Audubon, John James, 244 Auxier, Daniel, 225 Auxier, Elijah, 225 Azatlan, 5 Bank of Kentucky, 244 Banta, Hendrick, 164 Baptists. See Emancipationist Baptists; Regular Baptists; Separate Baptists Baptized Licking-Locust Association, 236 Bardstown, 188 Bardstown Station, 188 Barrow, David, 196, 200, 201, 235 Batts, Thomas, 11 Beall, Samuel, 114 Beargrass stations, 89, 118, 149, 164 Bedford, Thomas, 249 Bennett, Emerson, 280 Berkeley, William, 11 Bethel Presbyterian Church, 199 Bibb, Henry, 286, 287, 288 Big Bone Lick, 24, 256 Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone (Flint), 278, 279 Bison americanus, 41 Black Hoof (Shawnee chief), 88 Blackfish (Shawnee chief): as anti-American, 80; and assimilation , 93; death of, 87; leads siege of Fort Boone, 78, 83–84; and myth of “Dark and Bloody Ground,” 262 Blackstone, William, 191 Blanton’s Fort, 188 Blair, James, 213 Bledsoe, William, 209 Blue Jacket (Shawnee chief), 33, 176 Blue Licks, Battle of, 100, 245, 261, 262, 267 Bluegrass System, 219 Bonaparte, Napolean, 225 Boone, Daniel: at Battle of Blue Licks, 100; and Boonesborough convention , 61; departed Kentucky, 214; historians’ portrayals of, 262; as Indian captive, 80–81, 92–93, 94; on Native Americans, 97–98, 133; and­ Kentucke statehood, 132; as long hunter, 41–48, 120; as militia officer, 78; and opening of Wilderness Road, 59–60; portrait of, 43; and rescue of daughter, 72; restoration of whiteness , 97; and Richard Henderson, Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. index 360 • 57–58; and siege of Boonesborough, 83–84; as symbolic of Kentucke, 275–83 Boone, Israel, 100, 276 Boone, James, 276 Boone, Jemima, 72, 120, 279 Boone, Rebecca, 110, 120, 281 Boone, Squire, 43, 61, 65 Boone, Susannah, 65 Boone’s Station, 89 Boonesborough: meeting of Transylvania company at, 61–62; as secure space, 74; siege of, 79, 83–84; militia from, 99, 100; as part of village West, 188 Boston Tea Party, 56 Bouquet, Henry, 30, 39 Bowman, James, 78, 79 Bowman, John, 87 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 261 Braddock, Edward, 3, 27–28 Bradford, Fielding, 266, 275 Bradford, John: as editor, 267; as historian , 177, 262, 271–73, 276, 283 Brant, Joseph. See Thayendanegea­ (Mohawk chief) Breckinridge, Alexander, 130, 150 Breckinridge, John: and “Burr Conspiracy ,” 228; on cash, 142; and Constitution of 1799, 208, 209, 210; and gentility, 239; on Green River, 213; on Mississippi River, 202, 203; and opening of Mississippi River, 225; and opposition to Alien and Sedition Acts, 205, 206, 207; on­ rejection of attorney general position , 204; slavery, 189; and tobacco­ cultivation, 215–16 Breckinridge, Mary, 239 Breckinridge, Robert, 130, 150, 159 British Brown Bess musket, 118 “British Conspiracy,” 148 Brock, Tice, 112 Brodhead, Daniel, 90 Brooks, Ebenezer, 161 Brown, James, 161, 202, 226 Brown, John (lawyer): and “Burr Conspiracy ,” 227; and Danville Political Club, 160; family connections of, 158; and Kentucky statehood, 143; and “Spanish Conspiracy,” 146, 147, 148; as U.S. congressman, 159 Brown, John (minister), 163 Brown, Margaretta, 240 Brown, William, 237 Bruce, John, 123 Bryan, Daniel, 265–66 Bryan’s Station Baptist Church, 170, 236 Bryan’s Station, 99, 111, 281 Buffon, George, 34 Bullitt, Alexander, 159 Bullitt, Thomas, 50–51 Bunker Hill Monument, 274 Burr, Aaron, 227–29 “Burr Conspiracy,” 227–29 Butler, John, 99 Butler, Richard, 135, 137, 154, 259 Butler, Robert, 50 Cahokia, 5, 82 Calhoun, John C., 285 Callaway, Elizabeth, 112, 121 Callaway, Micajiah, 108 Callaway, Richard, 61, 65, 84, 97, 113 Calmes, Marquis, 241 Calmes, Priscilla Heale, 240, 241 Campbell, John, 69, 161 Cane Ridge Presbyterian Meeting House, 231 Captain Johnny. See Kekewepellethe (Shawnee chief) Captain Wildcat (Shawnee chief), 28 Cash, W.J., xxii Catawbas, 8 Causici, Enrico, 277 Cave-in-Rock, 211–12 Ca-we-chile (Shawnee leader), 136 Celeron de Bienville, Pierre-Joseph, 22 Chartier, Martin, 17 Chartier, Peter, 17–18, 21–22 Cherokees, 7–8, 12, 26, 29–30 Chickamauga Confederacy, 73, 108, 132 Chickasaws: and...