The Belle of the Bluegrass Country

vii, 424 pp. Seven pages of publisher ads follow text. Green cloth boards. Color frontispiece mirrored on front board, black-and-white photographic plates. EXCERPT: The road over the mountains and through the wilderness was difficult. For several dec ades the dangers and hardships were so great that only the boldest, the strongest, most able bodied men and stout-hearted women were willing to face them - the pick and choice of the best blood of the colonies.