Kentucky.
1833. [He had been in] those Indian wars which preceded the last expiring efforts of the kings of the woods, and which gave to the now fertile fields of Kentucky the poetical name of “the dark and bloody ground.”—J. K. Paulding, ‘The Banks of the Ohio,’ i. 166 (Lond.).
1834. The fair portion of Kentucky known by this significant title [“The Dark and Bloody Ground”] is said to have been distinguished by a similar term even before the appearance of the whites.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ ii. 160 n. (Lond., 1835).
1835. That beautiful region, which, though it now appeared to them as the land of paradise, was soon to verify its Indian appellation of “the Dark and Bloody Ground” to them also; and by these fearful epithets was it subsequently long known and stigmatized.—C. J. Latrobe, ‘The Rambler in North America,’ i. 77 (N.Y.).
1838. He was a pioneer from the dark and bloody ground, and many a time had followed the wild buck through those aged forests, where Boone, and Whitley, and Kenton once roved.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ i. 195 (N.Y.).
