A Concise History of Kentucky

Contents

Contents Preface xi Chapter One. Frontiers—Then and Now 1 The Past 3 Writing about the Past 3 Native Americans in Kentucky 4 Paleo-Indians, 10,000 to 8000 b.c. 5 Archaic Period, 8000 to 1000 b.c. 6 Woodland Period, 1000 b.c. to a.d. 1000 6 Late Prehistoric Period, a.d. 1000 to 1750 7 The Great Dying 8 The Name“Kentucky” 9 Chapter Two. Starting a State 11 The First West 14 The First Explorers 15 What They Found 17 Coming to Kentucky 20 Settling a State 21 Daniel Boone 24 Hard Times 26 Choices 27 The End of the Frontier 30 Statehood 30 Chapter Three. Different Kentuckys 33 The People of Kentucky 33 Kentucky Homes 34 The Land 35 Climate 40 Geographic Regions 41 Jackson Purchase 41 Pennyroyal (or Pennyrile) 42 Western Coal Fields 42 Bluegrass 43 Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields) 43 Cultural or Human Regions 44 Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky) 45 Northern Kentucky 46 Bluegrass 46 South-Central Kentucky 48 Louisville 49 West Kentucky 50 Jackson Purchase 52 Regionalism 52 Kentucky Names 53 Chapter Four. The Government of Kentucky 55 The Kentucky Constitution 55 Levels and Branches of Government 56 The Executive Branch 57 The Judicial Branch 59 The Legislative Branch 62 The Mystery of “Honest Dick” Tate 62 Chapter Five. Living in Kentucky 65 Daily Life 65 Clothes and Fashion 67 Food 68 Work 71 Health 74 Fun and Games 78 Religion 85 Chapter Six. From Statehood to the Civil War 91 Slavery 91 Slave Life 92 Freedom 96 Antislavery 100 Key Political Leaders 101 Three Kentucky Presidents 103 Chapter Seven. The Civil War and the End of a Century 109 The Brothers’ War 111 On the Battlefield 112 Guerrillas 116 Results of the War 117 From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century 120 Feuds and Murders 122 Chapter Eight. Working in Kentucky 127 Farming 127 Early Business and King Coal 130 Modern Industries 132 Global Kentucky 140 Chapter Nine. Words, Music, and More 143 Early Writing 143 Twentieth-Century Writers 146 Modern Writers 149 Writing History, Poetry, and Drama 150 Newspapers 154 Music 155 Radio and Television 159 Visual Arts 160 Motion Pictures 161 Chapter Ten. Kentucky in the Twentieth Century 163 The Transportation Revolution 163 The Communication Revolution 165 The New Deal 167 Wars 168 Out-Migration 171 Equal Rights 172 Equal Rights for Women 172 Equal Rights for All Races 175 Politics 179 Kentucky’s Best Year 182 Chapter Eleven. Going to School 183 Early Kentucky Schools 183 Life in School 185 Special Schools 189 Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond 190 Colleges and Universities 192 College Life 194 Chapter Twelve. Today and Tomorrow in Kentucky 197 A Typical Kentuckian 197 Saving Parts of the Past 198 Identifying Future Issues 199 The Future 200 Appendixes 203 Additional Sources for Research 219 Index 221 ...