THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY, A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792 by Ted Franklin Belue. Softbound, 315 pages, 6” x 9”. Kante-Ke, the Indian name for Kentucky, still evokes images of buffalo, elk and whitetail deer covering the landscape. Unlike any Kentucky book ever before written, the author conveys, through a deftly woven tapestry of sagas, narratives, and themes of the sweep of human-tide infiltrating the land that would become Kentucky. His focus rests upon the common men and a few famous ones, Depicting with exquisite detail the food, clothing, tools, weaponry, habits, skills and customs of the day. The result is a book that breathes new life into the history of a land and the lives of those well-known as well as those ordinary yet extraordinary men whose exploits and perseverance in the face of incredible perils and hardships shaped the destiny of Kentucky, and in so doing, the United States.           No.   702731