Reverend Virgil Pinckney's Frontier Interviews — Charles E. Hayes

There are many ways that we discover what happened when the USA was just beginning. There are government and military documents. We can also use journals and Diaries. Letters written by the people who lived the experience are valuable. Another source, we are fortunate to have, is the John Dabney Shane Interviews. lMany of the facts we know about the Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Ohio frontier came from interviews with the people who had been there. John Dabney Shane, a circuit riding Methodist minister is responsible for much that we know. The Reverend Thomas Pinckney is patterned after John Dabney Shane.