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Tennessee.
Indian law, tradition, and even superstition had shaped the conditions which the pioneers faced when they crossed the mountains.

This savage inheritance had decreed that Kentucky should be a dark and bloody ground, fostering no life but that of four-footed beasts, its fertile sod never to stir with the green push of the corn.

And so the white men who went into Kentucky to build and to plant went as warriors go, and for every cabin they erected they battled as warriors to hold a fort.

In the first years they planted little corn and reaped less, for it may be said that their rifles were never out of their hands.