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• Lord Dunmore's War, 1774

• The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784), by John Filson, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2003), by John Anthony Caruso, contrib. by John C. Inscoe (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (from George Imlay's 1793 edition), by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (illustrated HTML at earlyamerica.com)
• Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground, by Constance Lindsay Skinner (Gutenberg text)
• The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 (New York: The Century Co., 1920), by Archibald Henderson
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• Daniel Boone's predecessor in Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky., 1930), by Annie Walker Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest; a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1919), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest; a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1920), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest; a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1919), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Kentucky papers; the founding of Harman's Station, with an account of the Indian captivity of Mrs. Jennie Wiley and the exploration and settlement of the Big Sandy Valley in the Virginias and Kentucky (The Torch press, 1910), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of pioneer Kentucky. (Johnson & Hardin, 1917), by R. S. Cotterill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Transylvania colony (R. S. Guard & co., 1935), by William Stewart Lester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer to the Kentucky emigrant, a brief topographical & historical description of the state of Kentucky, to which are added some original verses (University of Kentucky publications committee, Margaret Voorhies Haggin trust, 1942), by John Magill and Thomas Dionysius Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boonesborough; its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals (J. P. Morton & company, printers, 1901), by George Washington Ranck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Political Club, Danville, Kentucky, 1786-1790. Being an account of an early Kentucky society from the original papers recently found. (John P. Morton, 1894), by Thomas Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the battle of Blue Licks (Morton, 1897), by Bennett H. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest : a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press, 1921), by Constance Lindsay Skinner and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Daniel Boone. (R. Worthington, 1884), by George Canning Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The founding of Harman's Station with an account of the Indian captivity of Mrs. Jennie Wiley and the exploration and settlement of the Big Sandy Valley in the Virginias and Kentucky (New York : The Torch Press, 1910), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer Kentucky; an outline of its exploration and settlement, its early cartography and primitive geography, coupled with a brief presentation of the principal trails, traces, forts, stations, springs, licks, fords and ferries used prior to the year 1800 (The State journal company, 1934), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political transactions in and concerning Kentucky, from the first settlement thereof until it became an independent state in June 1792. ([s.n.], 1806), by William Littell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battle of the Blue Licks, August 19, 1782 (Lexington, Ky., 1927), by Samuel M. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de Kentucke : nouvelle colonie à l'ouest de la Virginie: contenant, 1.̊ ; La découverte, l'acquisition, l'établissement, la description topographique, l'histoire naturelle, &c. du territoire: 2.̊ la relation historique du colonel Boon, un des premiers colons, sur les guerres contre les naturels: 3.̊ l'assemblée des Piankashaws au Poste Saint Vincent: 4.̊ un exposé succinct des nations indiennes qui habitent dans les limites des treize États-Unis, de leurs mœurs & coutumes, & des réflexions sur leur origine; & autres pièces: avec une carte. pour servir de suite aux Lettres d'un cultivateur amèricain. Tr. de l'anglois (Buisson, 1785), by John Filson and J. P. Parraud (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address in commemoration of the first settlement of Kentucky : delivered at Boonesborough the 25th May, 1840 (A.G. Hodges, state printer, 1840), by James T. Morehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky's struggle with its loyalist proprietors (s.n., 1920), by Wilbur Henry Siebert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky. A biography. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1866), by George Canning Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Henderson and the occupation of Kentucky, 1775. ([Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1914), by Archibald [Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early settlement of Kentucky ([Covington ? Ky., 1913), by Charles Eugene Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political beginnings of Kentucky. A narrative of public events bearing on the history of that state up to the time of its admission into the American Union. (J. P. Morton and company, 1889), by John Mason Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public good, being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the same: to which are added, proposals for laying off a new state, to be applied as a fund for carrying on the war, or redeeming the national debt. (R. Carlile, 1819), by Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• First explorations of Kentucky : Doctor Thomas Walker's journal of an exploration of Kentucky in 1750, being the first record of a white man's visit to the interior of that territory, now first published entire, with notes and biographical sketch; also Colonel Christopher Gist's journal of a tour through Ohio and Kentucky in 1751, with notes and sketch (J. P. Morton and Company, 1898), by J. Stoddard Johnston, Christopher Gist, and Thomas Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest; a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press, 1920), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the South. (Yale university press, 1921), by Mary Johnston and Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone : the pioneer of Kentucky : a biography (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1859), by George Canning Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone : the pioneer of Kentucky : a biography (Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1859), by George Canning Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tory proprietors of Kentucky lands (The F.J. Heer printing co., 1919), by Wilbur Henry Siebert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boonesborough : its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days and revolutionary annals; with full historical notes and appendix (J.P. Morton & co., printers, 1901), by George Washington Ranck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone : the pioneer of Kentucky : a biography (Worthington Co., 1889), by George Canning Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the Old Southwest a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press ;, 1919), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the old Southwest; a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press, 1921), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration delivered on the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the battle of the Blue Licks, 19 Aug. 1882. (Major, Johnston & Barrett, 1882), by John Mason Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky Society of Colonial Wars constitution, by-laws, officers, members 1917 (The Society, 1917), by Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Daniel Boone, the founder of the state of Kentucky. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1938), by Cecil B. Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filson's Kentucke; a facsimile reproduction of the original Wilmington edition of 1784 (J.P. Morgan & company, 1930), by John Filson and Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bryan station heroes and heroines; being an historical sketch of Bryan station from 1779 to 1932, including pen sketches of the heroes and heroines. (Press of the Commercial printing co., 1932), by Virginia Webb Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the dark and bloody ground; a group of fifteen original papers on the early history of Kentucky. (Dearing printing company, 1930), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the Old Southwest : a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground (Yale University Press, 1921), by Constance Lindsay Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, one of the first settlers at Kentucke: containing the wars with the Indians on the Ohio, from 1769 to 1783, and the first establishment and progress of the settlement on that river. / Written by the colonel himself. ; To which are added, a narrative of the captivity and extraordinary escape of Mrs. Francis [sic] Scott, an inhabitant of Washington-County Virginia ... (Norwich [Conn.] : Printed by John Trumbull., M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]), by Daniel Boone, Humphrey Marshall, and John Filson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Public good, being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the same. : To which is added, proposals for laying off a new state, to be applied as a fund for carrying on the war, or redeeming the national debt. / By the author of Common sense. (Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street., M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]), by Thomas Paine (HTML at Evans TCP)

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