The Shawnee (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813191805)

Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not tolerate the presence of whites there. Settlers would remember the warning until 1794 and the Battle of Fa

Author: Jerry E. Clark
ISBN-10: 0813191807
ISBN-13: 9780813191805
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2007
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.38h x 6.62w x 0.36d