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than at that where it started. The descendants of 

 the victors of King's Mountain are as likely to be 

 found in the Rockies as in the Alleghanies. 



With the close of the war came an enormous in 

 crease in the tide of immigration ; and many of the 

 new-comers were of a very different stamp from 

 their predecessors. The main current flowed to 

 ward Kentucky, and gave an entirely different char 

 acter to its population. The two typical figures in 

 Kentucky so far had been Clark and Boone, but 

 after the close of the Revolution both of them sank 

 into unimportance, whereas the careers of Sevier 

 and Robertson had only begun. The disappearance 

 of the two former from active life was partly acci 

 dental and partly a resultant of the forces that as 

 similated Kentucky so much more rapidly than Ten 

 nessee to the conditions prevailing in the old States. 

 Kentucky was the best known and the most acces 

 sible of the western regions ; within her own borders 

 she was now comparatively safe from serious Indian 

 invasion, and the tide of immigration naturally 

 flowed thither. So strong was the current that, 

 within a dozen years, it had completely swamped the 

 original settlers, and had changed Kentucky from 

 a peculiar pioneer and backwoods commonwealth 

 into a State differing no more from Virginia, Penn 

 sylvania, and North Carolina than these differed 

 from one another. 



The men who gave the tone to this great flood of 

 new-comers were the gentry from the sea-coast 

 country, the planters, the young lawyers, the men 



