Kentucky Girl
Taming a new country like Kentucky required the abilities and tenacity of women as much as the men. This is a story of Rachel a young girl of 18 years and her gun which helped carve out a living from among the wilderness, nature and indigenous Indians as well as primitive culture. Rachel faced many hardships and adversities but through determination and quickness of thought helped that raw land become the18th state known as the bluegrass state.
Kentucky Girl
Kentucky Girl Chapter 5 Part 1
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Don M. Tucker, Sr.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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They arrive in Boonsboro and were enthusiastically welcomed by the inhabitants. Rachel and her party were told they each could file on about 640 acres of land which had been purchased from the Cherokee Indians. The problem was that the Shawnee Indians did not recognize that purchase.