Artist/Maker

Marshall, Humphrey __author ||Gore, Henry __Printer

Place Made

Date Made

1812

Medium

ink –paper –leather

Dimensions

__ __8 1/2″ __5 1/4″

Accession Number

5860.30

Description

Harriet Morgan Boone (1794-1861), the granddaughter of pioneer Daniel Boone (1734-1820), owned this copy of Humphrey Marshall’s history of Kentucky. One of the first histories of the Bluegrass State, it was published just as Kentucky’s pioneering generation–people like Harriet’s grandfather–were passing away. Included in this copy is a rare plate depicting a scene from Boone’s life, in which he and his cohorts “were suddenly met on the side of a Cane-Break, and immediately fired upon…. An Indian, as their custom was, rushed upon Stewart, and with one hand wound in the hair of his head, and the other grasping a knife, took his scalp.”

Credit Line

Promised Gift of Thomas A. Gray