![]() Few today realize how close Henderson came to winning out. Others, like David, based their claims on the authority of Virginia. May, including Boone, held land grants from Judge Henderson’s Transylvania Company. And, although united in war against the British and their Indian allies, the settlers were at odds among themselves. ![]() ![]() David and Bethia belonged to a generation that never knew or expected security, and the background of their story is one of outnumbered and ill equipped, were hard put to defend their forts. Too late, he learned that the girl he had dreamed of marrying was the wife of his enemy. It was for her that he cleared his patch of forest, planted crops, and built a cabin. ![]() No love of land or home or woman had been strong enough to hold David until he met Bethia. Such a man was David Cooper, who had hunted the Kentucky wilderness with Daniel Boone before the first settlers crossed the Appalachians. Many of the frontiersmen were hunter in search of escape from an ever advancing civilization, seeking freedom and space. In her historical novel, first published in 1953, Giles invited the reader to experience the danger and beauty of life on the American frontier. ‘ The Kentuckians of Janice Holt Giles’s title were that hardy band of angels who straggled through Cumberland Gap in the 1770s and carved their farms from the wilderness of Virginia’s westernmost country. ![]()
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