Pioneer Voices II: Interviews with Early Settlers of Bourbon County, Kentucky

This work is a collection of first-hand accounts of men and women who came to Bourbon County during Kentucky's early settlement period, 1775-1800.

A valuable source of information about the early county and its people is available in the collection of interviews painstakingly recorded by Rev. John D. Shane.  After being ordained a Presbyterian minister, he was assigned to Kentucky in 1843.  Shane sought out and interviewed numerous aging pioneers in Central Kentucky in the 1840s and 50s.  He allowed his subjects to tell their stories about their own personal experiences.  They told of their adventures coming out to this new country, America's first western frontier, and many recounted clashes with Native Americans, often in graphic detail.  Shane recorded their stories in plain language that includes a wealth of information about everyday life in the wilderness that was then part of Virginia.

Harry G. Enoch and Anne Crabb

2024, 8.5" x 11", paper, index, 170 pp.

ISBN:  9781304072764

776-E7276