Kentucky's Road to Statehood.
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so unce...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |