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Vermont because he rode a horse that was faster than the
sheriff's horse was. He headed for Kentucky where he
opened up for business and where his breed, or some mem–
bers of
it,
have been domiciled ever since. There is a diary
of a traveler who, shortly after
1810,
made a journey
through the settlements on the farther fringes of the
South~~n
Wilderness and had a fairly bumpy experience
of it, but the only time he ever quit a party before the
party was over was when, by his own confession, he jumped
out of an upstairs window of "Squire Cobb's Tavern" into
the Cumberland River and swam that
icy
stream to the
comparatively peaceful territory of the Chickasaw Indian
Nation on the opposite shore. He didn't come back for his
other shirt; he sent back for it.
Moreo~er,
it was in my own State of Kentucky that one
of the four authentic whiskies originated. For, mark you,
there are but four properly recognized varieties, to wit:
Scotch whiskey and Irish whiskey in Great Britain, Rye
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