Kentucky Girl
Taming a new country like Kentucky required the abilities and tenacity of women as much as the men. This is a story of Rachel a young girl of 18 years and her gun which helped carve out a living from among the wilderness, nature and indigenous Indians as well as primitive culture. Rachel faced many hardships and adversities but through determination and quickness of thought helped that raw land become the18th state known as the bluegrass state.
Kentucky Girl
Kentucky Girl Chapter 6 Part 2
•
Don M. Tucker, Sr.
•
Season 1
•
Episode 13
The old Indian woman had to perform a surgical operation on Capt. Jack who was brought into the clinic with an arrow in his leg after a skirmish with the Indians. Rachel's group was assigned land very close to the fort so that the women could help with the medical needs. The men laid out their cabins to form a triangle so that two of the cabins would be close to defend the other.