How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry ClayEighteenth century Kentucky was a place where Indian and European cultures collided and, surprisingly, coincided. But this mixed world did not last, and it eventually gave way to nineteenth century commercial and industrial development. How the West Was Lost tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost. It focuses on the common