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Fair Hell - Richard Pendleton Watts

Fair Hell

By: Richard Pendleton Watts

Paperback | 8 December 2025

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A Story That Reveals What Fair Hell Is Like

Ride along on this incredible adventure, which blends historical people, places, and events with an engaging fictional story about the settlers of Kentucky during the American Revolutionary War.

Bullitt's Lick was the earliest and most productive saltworks in the Kentucky area, providing this essential mineral to animals and also to human settlement. Using accurate details, the story reveals how the salt was extracted with kettles over fires and then transported to get the rare product to people as far as Illinois, Pennsylvania, and even to New Orleans.

Live with the settlers on the frontier, where they faced dangers from uncharted waters; hostile encounters with ruffians, hooligans, and Native Americans; along with harsh wilderness conditions. Various groups of people were among those to explore and settle this area-some with kind hearts and good intentions and others with evil plans.

With dialogue written to sound as the characters are speaking, the reader will feel like they're listening to real speech from Kentucky settlers, including backwoods frontier people, Quakers, Native Americans, and even foreign dialects from the French, German, and British immigrants.

This is an enlightening novel that not only gives an educational, informative, and knowledgeable view to this era but also provides a story that won't soon be forgotten.

The author is a native Kentuckian who lived in the area for most of his life. He grew up embracing the history and the peoples of the Louisville area, writing from his heart and with a mind to reveal an amazing past.

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