Status Updates From The Frontiersmen: A Narrati...

Gentle readers, she indeed did not finish. She didn't even make it 15 pages because she got sidetracked on a mission to determine if the original owner of her house, Andrew McConnell January, was related to the Andrew McConnell running around with Simon Kenton in this county 250 years ago. Answer? Yes. He was his maternal grandfather. Carry on.

It's just a doorstop. I am determined to finish this in the next 24 hours.

Mason County proper enters the chat.

So I was firmly on the side of the indigenous people. Like all the way and was ugly crying at 7am on Sunday for Abraham and the other converts. But then like...maybe torturing random people in return is not cool and I was horrified and wanted to throw up. I know there's the whole don't start none wont be none, but maybe wholesale torture of anyone they come across who is white is not cool. Also Simon Girty....wtf

Like, still on the side of the Shawnees over here. Don't start none won't be none.

We've made it to Maysville (Limestone). Huzzah.

I don't like this. And I like it less because it's real. I'm on the Shawnee's side at this point.

You are gonna need a healthy background in Kentucky geography and history to understand the first quarter of this. At minimum I would suggest reviewing the major rivers of eastern and northern Kentucky especially any tributaries of the Ohio. Otherwise you're going to be lost. Literally.