Sketches of the early Catholic missions of Kentucky: from their commencement in 1787, to the jubilee of 1826-7

Embracing a summary of the early history of the state, the adventures of the first Catholic emigrants, biographical notices of the early missionaries, the early history of the principal Protestant sects in Kentucky, with some account of the establishment of the Episcopal see at Bardstown, of the various religious societies, and of the general state of the Catholic religion in Kentucky. Compiled from authentic sources, with the assistance of the Very Rev. Stephen Theodore Badin