Excerpt from A History of Kentucky: Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers, Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesman, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers, Merchants, and Other Leading Men, of All Occupations and Pursuits I have ever thought that the way to spend most profitably our leisure moments was by the perusal of good books, and especially historical works; and of these, the first to be pre ferred, aside from the Bible, is the history of our own State and country. I have endeavored so to arrange the work as to make it not only a pleasing and interesting study, but in structive also; and if I have succeeded in ever so small a de gree in redeeming from oblivion any mementoes of the past which deserve a place in history, my highest expectations will have been accomplished. Multum in parvo have been my watch-words; and I have consequently contracted the state ments of facts and events as much as possible, so as to ren der the book of such size and price as to be accessible to all, even those of small pecuniary means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.