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Article: Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West. By Craig Thompson Friend. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 378. $42.00, ISBN 1-57233-315-4.)
Craig Thompson Friend has written "the biography of a road--the life of the Maysville Road from its beginnings as a buffalo trace to its role in peopling and transforming an early American West to its decline in regional and national culture" (p. 4). His study joins a burgeoning literature that points to a renaissance in the study of frontier Kentucky.
Kentucky and the broader Ohio Valley increasingly have been situated at the center of the American ...