by Chester Raymond Young (Editor)
" In his youth Daniel Trabue (1760-1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a fo
Author Biography
Chester Raymond Young (1920--1999) was professor of history and chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
Daniel Blake Smith is professor of history at the University of Kentucky.