Justice, on frontier, 61, 223, 225, 226.
Kanawha County (W. Va.), Boone in, 210-222.
Kansas, Boone in, 229.
Kaskaskia (Ill.), won by Clark, 159, 190.
Keith, Sir William, governor of Pennsylvania, 87.
Kennedy, John, Kentucky pioneer, 117.
Kenton, Simon, scout, 125;
in Revolutionary War, 141, 160, 189.
Kentucky, described, 82, 131, 132;
debatable land between tribes, 76, 77;
early explorations, vii, 85-87, 89-91;
Virginia hunters, 20;
Finley, 22, 23, 71, 87, 88;
Boone's early explorations, 24, 64, 68-70, 88, 89, 101;
Boone's long hunt, 72-84, 86, 94-97;
Long Hunters in, 91-95;
Washington, 88, 89;
Cutbirth, 66, 67;
Boone family, 25, 43, 241;
game abundant, 98, 129, 218;
Cherokee lands settled, 99;
early colonial projects, 100;
Transylvania Company, 113-176;
first settled, vii, viii;
rush of settlers, 104, 178, 195-198, 207;
in Dunmore's War, 106, 107, 113;
during Revolutionary War, 132-192;
losses in Indian wars, 205;
Indians finally quelled, 213-218;
established as Virginia County, 123, 133, 134;
divided into three counties, 179-181;
made a district, 195;
becomes a State, 205;
sends Boone to legislature, 182, 183;
separatist agitation, 202-205;
first wedding, 143;
first artillery, 174;
hard winter, 173, 175, 176;
early commerce, 196, 197;
Boone pays debts, 229;
Boone's services to, 200, 201;
petitions Congress for Boone, 176, 177, 228;
obtains Boone's remains, ix, 240;
declines to buy Harding's portrait, 238;
Filson's _History_, 199.
King, John, Kentucky pioneer, 117.
--, John L., owns Boone portrait, 239.
--, William H., owns Boone portrait, 237-239;
aid acknowledged, xi.
King Philip, Indian hero, 51, 52.
Kinkead, Sergt. John, in Dunmore's War, 109.
Lackey, W. G., aid acknowledged, xi.
La Fayette, Gen. Marquis de, in Virginia, 182.
Land grants, to French and Indian War veterans, 88, 121, 131;
by Iroquois to whites, 114;
by Cherokees to whites, 113-116;
Boone from Virginia, 177;
Boone from Spain, 222, 227, 228.
See also Transylvania Company.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, on Western waters, 86.
Law, on frontier, 33, 34, 224-227.
Lederer, John, on Western waters, 86.
Lee, William, Kentucky pioneer, 121, 137.
Lewis, Gen. Andrew, in Dunmore's War, 107, 110, 111.
-- family, Kentucky pioneers. 125.
Lexington (Ky.), seat of Fayette County, 179, 193;
in Revolutionary War, 186-188.
Limestone. See Maysville.
Lincoln, Abraham, Kentucky pioneer, 174.
-- County (Ky.), organized, 179-181;
in Revolutionary War, 188.
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