In this episode, we explore kentucky was never an empty wilderness. Welcome to today's deep dive. I'm so glad you're joining us because Well today's journey is gonna Completely shatter how you view the American frontier. Oh, absolutely It really changes everything right because you know when you look at a map of the United States We kind of tend to picture these these clean neat borders drawn in permanent ink like the frontier was just this quiet empty place waiting to be discovered a blank slate exactly a blank slate where pioneers just arrived built some cabins and politely started a state. It feels very orderly. But then you look at Kentucky. Yeah, that's where the neat lines completely fall apart. They really do. It's like those ink lines were drawn during a massive earthquake right over top of ancient ruins while people were literally fighting  ...