Henry Enoch was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and migrated to the Virginia frontier, where he settled on land surveyed by George Washington at the Forks of Cacapon. Three of…

The focal point of this meticulously researched book is the 1793 Indian raid on Morgan’s Station in which a band of about thirty-five Shawnee and Cherokee Indians descended upon this…

John Martin was a pioneer of Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived on Lower Howard's Creek. John had been a blacksmith in Goochland County, Virginia, where he married Rachel Pace…

Brothers Henry Enoch and Enoch Enoch came to Virginia before 1750, settling on the sparsely populated frontier west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their Virginia years were defined by the…

Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky's most historic places and, although seldom mentioned in popular accounts, women were there from the very beginning. This work includes 195 women whose presence…

John Halley's journals provide the earliest first-hand accounts of the voyage down the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Halley supplies insightful accounts of what became one of…