The Star of Empire

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Excerpt from The Star of Empire: Phases of the Westward Movement in the Old Southwest In the epic movement of American expansion, which found its true inauguration in pioneer advance and its true romance in border struggle, North Carolina and Kentucky are united with indissoluble bonds. Three such men as Daniel Boone, Richard Henderson, and Isaac Shelby - Boone, the explorer and Indian fighter, Henderson, the colonizer and lawgiver, Shelby, the soldier and statesman - flowering at a single historical moment out of the life of North Carolina endow her with a rare distinction as a creative force in westward expansion. Kentucky would be sorely impoverished, shorn of the greater measure of the incomparable romance and wonder of her settlement, rude beginnings, and first steps in national statehood if bereft of North Carolina's epochal contribution: the exploring instinct of Christopher Gist, the pioneering genius of Daniel Boone, the strenuous leadership of Isaac Shelby, the colonizing spirit of Richard Henderson, the expansionist ideals of the canny Scots, James Hogg and William Johnston, of that sire of the "Great Pacificator, " Jesse Benton, of the Harts, Thomas, Nathaniel, and David, the Hendersons, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Pleasant, the Boones, Squire and Jesse, Richard Calloway, Felix Walker, John Luttrell, John Williams, John Gray Blount, Leonard Henley Bullock. William Bailey Smith, and others less spectacular in their achievements yet little less important. They were the crest and foremost fringe of that mobile wave which welled up from the fountain source of American liberty, the ancient colony of North Carolina, swept irresistibly through the "high-swung gateway" of the Cumberland, and held the fair region of the trans-Alleghany within the circle of its protecting barrier until Kentucky had weathered the storms of border warfare and been swept triumphantly into a union of free and independent states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.