A&S Alumnus Unearths Truth Behind Notorious Frontiersman in University Press of Kentucky Book
By University Press of Kentucky and Danielle Donham
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 5, 2021) — Simon Girty was one of the most hated men in early America. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was raised on the western Pennsylvania frontier and captured by the Senecas as a teenager, living among them for several years.