Peace with Napoleon's coming, 168 Pennsylvanian (Up. Carboniferous), 528 Perry, Commodore Oliver Hazard, 206, 598 Peter, Dr. Robert, 576 Petitioning Virginia for Statehood, 89 Physical Kentucky in Boone's time, 8 Plea for admission, another Kentucky, 105 Point Pleasant, battle of, 22 Police Courts, 478 Political conditions in state during war's closing Political Parties of 1860, 289 Polk, Bishop Leonidas, 564 Population of Kentucky in 1790, 120 Population of Kentucky, 601 Postoffice, Louisville, 91 Raise siege of Logan's Fort, 44 Rapids of the Ohio, 1 Real Kentucky Mountaineer, 498 Reasons for postponement of separation, 106 Rebel and Union Guerrillas, 367 Redress from injustice, 144 Reel Foot Lake, 198, 523 Relief of Fort Wayne, 205 Relief Party and leaders, 239 Relief parties, 239 Remarkable New Orleans victory, 228 Repeal of the Internal Revenue taxation, 188 Republican becomes Democratic party, 191 Report of committee on State Normal Schools, 436 Resolutions of 1798 adopted without amendment, 159 Resolutions, similar, adopted by Virginia, 160 Retreat from Missionary Ridge, 364 Return to deserted camp, Boone's, 9 Returns to the Falls of the Ohio, Clark, 55 Revenue and Taxation, 482 Revolution proposed, 112 Ripley Series, 528 River Raisin, Battle of, 207 Slaves, attempt escape, 176; last sale of in Ken- tucky, 180; marriage of, 182 Slavery in Kentucky, 169 Slavery meetings, 176 Slow communication, days of, 186 Smith, Gen. Green Clay, 339 Spain again checkmated, 136 Speed, Mrs. Fannie, 443 Splendid Kentucky private, the, 387 Squire Boone, 10, 452 Society of Sons of the Cincinnati,'' 583 Some attempted slave escapes, 176 Some leading Confederate soldiers, 317 South Kentucky College, 440 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 420 Southern Normal, 434 Southern sympathizers, arrest of, 322 Sovereignty Convention, 324 St. Asaph, 24 St. Boniface, 462 St. Joseph's Cathedral, 461 St. Joseph's College, 462 Ste. Genevieve Group, 531 St. Louis church, 462 St. Louis Limestone Group, 531 St. Mary's College, 462 St. Thomas church at Bardstown, 461 Stanford Female College, 445 State aid to public works, 199 "Walnut Cliff Farm," 568 Washington, Gen. George, 3, 97, 142; again com- Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 126, 132; gives British offi- "Western American," 556 Western Baptist Theological Institute, 420 "Western Journal of Medicine,' Western Kentucky Asylum for the Insane, 447 West Virginia, 87 Whalen, Father Charles, 458 Whig Party, death of, 249 White men penetrate the interior, 2 Wickliffe, Charles A., 257 Wickliffe, J. Crepps, 257 Wickliffe, Robert, 257 Wildeat banks, 250 Wilder, Colonel, surrender of, 339 Wilkinson, Gen. James, 92, 95, 101, 104, 117; and a free Mississippi, 114; designs of, 111; founds Williams, Colonel John S., 270, 317 Williams, "Cerro Gordo," 269 Winter of 1779, 66 Wolford, Col. Frank, 302, 379 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 447 Woman's Christian Temperance Union Settlement Women's Clubs, Kentucky Federation of, 448 Woodford county, 135 Word Transylvania,'' 425 Yandell, Dr. David Wendell, 577 Yandell, Dr. Lunsford P., Sr., 581 Yandell, Dr. Lunsford Pitts, 580 "Yankee" school teachers, 407 Years preceding the Civil War, 290 Young Kentucky, famous resolutions of, 145 History of Kentucky and Kentuckians CHAPTER I. LA SALLE DISCOVERS KENTUCKY SHORES-"RAPIDS" OF THE OHIO CAPT. BATTS "TRACING A PATHWAY"-THROUGH CUMBERLAND GAP-PENETRATING THE INTERIOR-FIRST KENTUCKY DWELLING GIST AND THE OHIO COMPANY-DINWIDDIE HALTS THE FRENCH-WASHINGTON ON THE SCENE-INDIANS' "HAPPY HUNTING GROUND"ORIGIN OF THE NAME, KENTUCKY. The dominant desire of the Anglo-Saxon has been from immemorial time the acquisition of land and following the "Star of Empire," his course has been ever to the westward. Not the Anglo-Saxon alone has felt this impulse, but the men of all civilized lands, though the former has been most persistent and therefore, most fortunate. When Kentucky was an unknown land, men of the old world were discussing and some of them were seeking a waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific which they imagined lay across what we now know to be the wide prairies and lofty mountains of our western domain. The search for a western passage to the Pacific and all that lay beyond, led the Chevalier Robert de La Salle, an adventurous Frenchman, to lead an expedition westward and so far as records exist, he was the first white man to pass down the Ohio river which he entered from the Allegheny. He is believed to have been the first man of the white race to see the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. Col. Reuben T. Durrett, whose very name spells entucky history, and to whom the state owes more than to all other of her sons, the collecting and preserving of the records of her beginning and her progress, says of La Salle in the "Centenary of Kentucky:" "In making the long journey he was the discoverer of Kentucky from the Big Sandy to the Rapids of the Ohio, and was the first white man whose eyes looked eastward from the beautiful river to the Blue Grass land, which forms the Garden Spot of the state." It will be noted that Col. Durrett writes of the "Rapids of the Ohio," rather than of the more commonly accepted term "The Falls of the Ohio," thus even in minor matters evincing the devotion to exact description that has characterized his historical researches and statements. The term "falls" denotes a condition that is not fairly descriptive of the interruption to the steady flow of the Ohio at Louisville, while the word "rapids" is not only exact but strictly correct. The "Falls of the Ohio" have, however, been so long accepted, and Louisville so widely known as the "Falls City,' that it were vain to seek a change in phraseology. Even the more modern and |