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 10 Part 2
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Don M. Tucker, Sr.
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Season 1
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Episode 20
Rachel's speech captured the legislature completely. They recognized her description of need as that which applies to all incoming homesteaders of the state. In a resounding decision they voted to establish a state- wide public school system. Homesteaders continued pouring into Kentucky with the consequence of pushing the Indians further west. This resulted in the election of an Indian hater, Andrew Jackson, as president of the United States, who used the army to round up all Indians and herd them west to Oklahoma in an action called “The Trail of Tears.” Rachel, Betsy and Nancy represent all women who helped establish this nation and who rightly deserve our utmost praise.