. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . to return again to Kentucky in 1775, accompaniedby his family. He says: We arrived safe, without any otherdifiiculties than such as are common to this passage, my wifeand daughter being the first white women that ever stood onthe banks of Kentucky River
. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . to return again to Kentucky in 1775, accompaniedby his family. He says: We arrived safe, without any otherdifiiculties than such as are common to this passage, my wifeand daughter being the first white women that ever stood onthe banks of Kentucky River, Nothing in Indian history surpasses in thrilling interest theexperiences of the Boone family in their struggles with the sav-ages, their repeated capture, hair-breadth esca])es, &c., < was of much service to the growing settlements, fromhis bravery, his intelligence, and his consummate knowledgeof the Indian character. Kentucky was now made a countyof A^irginia, and the first court was held at Ilarrodsburg in1777. In 1792 it was admitted into the Union as a sovereignState, embracing an area of 37,680 square miles, equal to24,115,200 acres. In 1860 its population was 1,155,684, ofwhich 236,167 were colored. The surface-features of Kentucky may be thus generallydescribed : The Ohio River winds along its northerly bounda-. oto-Litho^raphic Co^ i Osbornes Process-i
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