THE

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY

FOURTH EDITION.

FROM ITS EARLIEST DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT DATE, EMBRAC-
ING ITS PREHISTORIC AND ABORIGINAL PERIODS; ITS PIONEER LIFE AND
EXPERIENCES; ITS POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS;

ITS EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT; ITS

MILITARY EVENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS, AND
BIOGRAPHIC MENTION OF ITS
HISTORIC CHARACTERS;

TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION OF 1895-96, IN-
STALLING THE REPUBLICANS IN POWER IN KENTUCKY; THE CAUSES AND INCI-
DENTS THEREFOR; THE SUBSEQUENT PARTY CONTESTS FOR SUPREMACY,
ENDING WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF GOV. WILLIAM GOEBEL; THE

TRIALS OF THOSE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY, AND THE

RULINGS OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS ON
QUESTIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION.

BY

Z. F. SMITH,

EX-SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF KENTUCKY.

THE PRENTICE PRESS:
(COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING COMPANY)
Louisville, Ky., 1901.

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DEDICATORY,

'O THE memory of the pioneers of Kentucky, whose stalwart virtues and gallant deeds are unsurpassed in any age or by any people, and who builded the first temple of liberty in the transmontane wilderness, this history is reverently dedicated. This tribute is offered by a grateful and admiring eulogist, who deems it a proud memento of his life to have been born and reared upon the soil of the "Dark and Bloody Ground," watered with the blood of its heroes; and all of whose ancestors for two generations sleep beside them, and under the same sod. A common citizenship holds sacred in the urn of memory the exalted manhood and imperishable fame of an ancestry who command their own tribute of affection and the admiration of the world. These grand men answered the call of Providence for a grand work, and, like the chosen of old, and for other ends, many sealed their mission with the blood of martyrdom. Their labors are done; their mission ended. The world will not see their like again.

"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead!

Dear as the blood ye gave;

No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;

Nor shall your glory be forgot

While Fame her record keeps,

Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.

"Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone,
In deathless song shall tell,

When many a vanished year hath flown,
The story how ye fell;

Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's bl

Nor time's remorseless doom,

Can dim one ray of holy light

That gilds your glorious tomb."

-O'Hara.

To the Youth of our Commonwealth we would as earnestly consecrate this book; that the virtues of manly courage, of high resolve, and of heroic sacrifice, which achieved success with our noble forefathers, may inspire laudable ambition and emulation in the respective spheres of life in which they may act.

THE AUTHOR.

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