The Department of Geography, at the University of Kentucky, proudly introduces its two newest faculty members for the 2007-2008 academic year. Assistant Professor Marshall Wilkinson joins us after teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor during the 2006-2007 academic year and Assistant Professor Rosemary Sherriff joins us after being on faculty at University of Hawai'i Hilo.

New Publication: Kentucky's Frontier Trails
During America's colonial period, the trans-Appalachian west, though largely terra incognita to people living on the eastern seaboard and occupied by significant numbers of native peoples, lay open to initial forays by hunters, explorers, surveyors, and settlers. The earliest overland travel routes to traverse western Virginia lands, country that eventually became the Commonwealth of Kentucky, were established between the 1750s and 1780.