书摘

There was a woman in harrodsburg—it was called Fort Harrod in those days—named Ann McGinty. The old histories record that Ann and her husband brought the first hogs into Kentucky, the first ducks and the first spinning-wheel；and they also declare that she was the first woman ever to make butter out there in the dark and bloody wilder-ness.But her real claim to fame rests upon the fact that she performed an economic and textile miracle.Cotton could be neither grown nor purchased there in the mysterious Indian country, and timber-wolves slaughtered the sheep.So it was well-nigh impossible to find any substance from which clothes could be made.