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Richard Taylor
Three Kentucky Tragedies

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Here are three tragedies from early Kentucky history: the defeat of a small army of Kentuckians by Indians at Blue Licks in 1782, the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson’s nephews in western Kentucky in 1807, and the bizarre Beauchamp-Sharp murder in Frankfort in 1825. Taylor mixes history with good storytelling and a look at how human shortcomings sometimes lead to ruin.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 64 ● ISBN 9780813136356 ● Publisher The University Press of Kentucky ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5844099 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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