The Reign of Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields【電子書籍】[ James Lane Allen ]

＜p＞The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hempーwith remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. Away back in the days when they lived with wife, child, flock in frontier wooden fortresses and hardly ventured forth for water, salt, game, tillageーin the very summer of that wild daylight ride of Tomlinson and Bell, by comparison with which, my children, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, was as tame as the pitching of a rocking-horse in a boy's nurseryーon that history-making twelfth of August, of the year 1782, when these two backwoods riflemen, during that same Revolution the Kentuckians then fighting a branch of that same British army, rushed out of Bryan's Station for the rousing of the settlements and the saving of the Westーhemp was growing tall and thick near the walls of the fort. Hemp in Kentucky in 1782ーearly landmark in the history of the soil, of the people. Cultiv．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る