It takes the average reader 1 hour and 48 minutes to read The Life and Times of Benjamin Uhlen by Lew Nicholls
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Benjamin Uhlen moved to Greenup County, Kentucky in 1800. His life personified the early frontiersman who was independent, resourceful, and knew how to survive under adverse circumstances. Benjamin's parents died when he was a young teenager in Mobile, Alabama. He ran away from his court-appointed guardian and eventually was captured by Creek Indians. The Creek Indians traded him to Isaac Zane who was married to a Wyandot Indian and lived near Lake Erie. After running away from Isaac Zane, Benjamin became a scout for the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war he moved to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he met his wife Catherine and became a merchant. Seeking land of his own, he travelled down the Ohio River, eventually stopping at what would become Greenup County, Kentucky, where he raised his family. Lew Nicholls and Matthew Wixsom are both attorneys and re-enactors at the Wolf Pen Woods Pioneer Village, an historical eastern Kentucky pioneer village set in the 1780's and 1790's located on Bolts Fork in Boyd County, Kentucky, owned and operated by Dr. Roland Burns, Ph.D. During the 2014 season they became interested in learning whether the Uhlen log cabin at Wolfe Pen Village was authentic.Their legal backgrounds uniquely qualified them to perform a title search on the land where the Uhlen cabin was originally located in Greenup County. What started as a mere title search turned into a historical journey into the life of Uhlen. Nicholls and Wixsom built upon the research already conducted by Rev. Nancy Mayes, a Benjamin Uhlen researcher in her own right. Coupled with Dr. Roland Burns' editing abilities and his own research into the life of Benjamin Uhlen, this team produced a fascinating book about an early frontiersman who settled in Greenup County, KY, forging a home for his wife and children out the eastern Kentucky wilderness. His story is not unique but is representative of the sacrifices made by our forefathers to settle this land.
The Life and Times of Benjamin Uhlen by Lew Nicholls is 106 pages long, and a total of 27,136 words.
This makes it 36% the length of the average book. It also has 33% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 28 minutes to read The Life and Times of Benjamin Uhlen aloud.
The Life and Times of Benjamin Uhlen is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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