Kentucke's Frontiers

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American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky'sfrontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when Ohio River valley Indiansreturned to their homeland to the American defeat of the British and their Indianallies in the War of 1812, Kentucke's Frontiers examines the political, military, religious, and public memory narratives of early Kentucky. Craig Thompson Friendexplains how frontier terror framed that heroism, undermining the egalitarianpromise of Kentucke and transforming a trans-Appalachian region into an Old Southstate. From county courts and the state legislature to church tribunals and villagestores, patriarchy triumphed over racial and gendered equality, creating politicaland economic opportunity for white men by denying it for all others. Even inremembering their frontier past, Kentuckians abandoned the egalitarianism offrontier life and elevated white males to privileged places in Kentucky history andmemory.