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 6 Part 1
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Don M. Tucker, Sr.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
Rachel's party was integrated into life at Boonsboro. The men were assigned duties to guard on the ramparts, Rachel, Betsy and Nancy began a kind of clinic. After one of the forays by the militia they brought in an old Indian woman of an indeterminate age. She hand great knowledge of the use of herbs and such.