Blood in the Wilderness
Early August, 1799.
A wilderness clearing along the Mud River...a few miles northeast of Russellville, a small town in the vast, nearly unbroken frontier of western Kentucky.
A pioneer family has stopped to rest.
Two men. Three women. Three babies. A string of pack horses.
It has been an exhausting journey, a dangerous one at times.
The men are about thirty, the women some five to ten years younger. Ea...
Early August, 1799.
A wilderness clearing along the Mud River...a few miles northeast of Russellville, a small town in the vast, nearly unbroken frontier of western Kentucky.
A pioneer family has stopped to rest.
Two men. Three women. Three babies. A string of pack horses.
It has been an exhausting journey, a dangerous one at times.
The men are about thirty, the women some five to ten years younger. Ea...
