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The Kentuckians audiobook

Giles's novel features her character David Cooper, who hunted the Kentucky wilderness with Daniel Boone before the first settlers crossed the Appalachians. David falls in love with another settler, Bethia. It was for her that he cleared his patch of forest, planted crops, and built a cabin. Too late, he learned that the girl he had dreamed of marrying was the wife of his enemy. David and Bethia belonged to a generation that never knew or expected security, and the background of their story is one of turmoil: Early settlers were hard put to defend their forts; and, although united in war against the British and their Indian allies, they were often at odds among themselves. Many, including Boone, held land grants from Judge Henderson's Transylvania Company. Others, like David, based their claims on the authority of Virginia.

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