The Voice of the Frontier

From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette , reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's Notes on Kentucky —the primary historical source for Kentucky's early years—are made available in a single volume, edited by the state's most distinguished historian. The Kentucky Gazette was established in 1787 to support Kentucky's separation from V