If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.


– Rudyard Kipling

Alcohol on the Frontier

While researching some ancestors, I learned that they owned a tavern on the Midwest frontier.  One might assume that it was no coincidence that they were also ranking officers in

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A Story Of The Shawnee

There is an interesting Shawnee History found in the Journal of George Johnston.  George Bluejacket was the son of the great Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket.  He later became a Shawnee

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“An Old Hero Returns”

I found this story of Simon Kenton in a book titled “On the Kentucky Frontier” by James Otis, published in 1900    … and this story is of Kenton, at

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