The Shawnee - Paperback

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
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 120 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813191807
• | ISBN-13: 9780813191805