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Portrait in A Narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner, by Edwin James, London, 1830. John Tanner (c. 1780 – c. 1846), known also by his Ojibwe name Shaw-shaw-wa-ne-ba-se ("The Falcon", Zhaashaawanibiisi in modern spelling), [a] was captured by Odawa Indians as a child after his family had homesteaded on the Ohio River in present-day Kentucky.
Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole, et al., but American-born or naturalized smugglers, Indigenous slave traders, and any American buyers of ...
William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man.After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his four brothers.
Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky. Troublesome Creek is a creek in Breathitt, Perry and Knott counties, Kentucky, a fork of the North Fork Kentucky River. [1] It is 41.46 miles (66.72 km) long with a gradient of 8.92 feet per mile (168.9 cm/km), normally free-flowing, and with banks that vary between tree-lined and open.
North Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. [3] It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville. [3] It is nearly 148 miles (238 km) long with an average slope of 3.2 feet per mile (0.61 m/km), [1] and an overall basin size (at Jackson) of 1,101 square miles (2,850 km 2) [4]
KY 1845 north (Rogers Road) Southern terminus of KY 1845: Kentucky River: 91.659– 91.866: 147.511– 147.844: Bridge over the Kentucky River: Jessamine 95.163: 153.150: KY 1268 south (Sugar Creek Pike) Southern end of KY 1268 overlap 95.620: 153.885: KY 1268 north (Bethel Road) Northern end of KY 1268 overlap: Nicholasville: 97.113: 156.288 ...
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Interstate 275 (I-275) is an 83.71-mile-long (134.72 km) [1] highway in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky that forms a complete beltway around the Cincinnati metropolitan area and includes a part in a state (Indiana) not entered by the parent route.