About the Kentucky Colonel News

 About the Kentucky Colonel News

The Kentucky Colonel News publishes only factual accounts based on historical observations by third-parties, our content is derived from the personal experiences of Kentucky colonels since we identified Col. Daniel Boone as the first "Kentucky Colonel" in 1775 that can be objectively sustained among historians. This opinion was sustained by State Officials like the President of the Kentucky Historical Society, Colonel George M. Chinn at least until 1976-1992.

Boone was commissioned by the Transylvania Company in March to build the Wild Road and clear the trees with a team of 33 axmen. -Durrett

The facts are dutifully sustained through the collections and works of John Filson and Reuben Thomas Durrett. Which also account for the first commissions by the Commonwealth of Virginia, when Col. Daniel Boone's Lieutenant, John Bowman when to Governor Patrick Henry and became the First Colonel of Kentucky charged with the formation of a civil government. Col. Bowman was in turn was charged with commissioning at least fifty or more "new colonels" in charge of territories therein. One of the things about civilian colonelcy is that a colonel could make as many assistants or lieutenants as he likes to secure the order of establishing civil government. 

Kentucky Colonel: A Character that is Larger-Than-Life 

The archetype of the original "Kentucky Colonel" as a nonmilitary civil colonelcy is developed and planted for the first-time in the American conscience through the creation of a larger-than-life fictional character named Colonel Nimrod Wildfire. 

Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s—the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor. But what had happened to the play that first made him famous? Until last week, most scholars could point to that as a U.S. literary mystery. (Time 1954)

First True Accounts  

The Making of the Kentucky Magna Charta May 23, 1775 at the Divine Elm which served as the Capital and the Church for the new frontier government of the colonels. Of the 17 delegates 13 were colonels or soon would be, history tells us there were about 100 people present, other records include those who were arriving 2 years later for the census in 1780.