254 The Winning of the West 



APPENDIX B TO CHAPTER V 



In Mr. Shaler's entertaining "History of Ken- 

 tucky," there is an account of the population of the 

 Western frontiers, and Kentucky, interesting be- 

 cause it illustrates some of the popular delusions 

 on the subject. He speaks (pp. 9, n, 23) of Ken- 

 tucky as containing "nearly pure English blood, 

 mainly derived through the old Dominion, and al- 

 together from districts that shared the Virginian 

 conditions." As much of the blood was Pennsyl- 

 vanian or North Carolinian, his last sentence means 

 nothing, unless all the "districts" outside of New 

 England are held to have shared the Virginian 

 conditions. Turning to Marshall (I., 441) we see 

 that in 1780 about half the people were from Vir- 

 ginia, Pennsylvania furnishing the next greatest 

 number; and of the Virginians most were from a 

 population much more like that of Pennsylvania 

 than like that of tide-water Virginia; as we learn 

 from twenty sources, such as Waddell's "Annals 

 of Augusta County." Mr. Shaler speaks of the 

 Huguenots and of the Scotch immigrants, who 

 came over after 1745, but actually makes no men- 

 tion of the Presbyterian Irish or Scotch Irish, much 

 the most important element in all the West; in fact, 

 on p. 10, he impliedly excludes any such immigra- 

 tion at all. He greatly underestimates the German 

 element, which was important in West Virginia. 

 He sums up by stating that the Kentuckians come 

 from the "truly British people," quite a different 



