Some of you may not know but I'm a full blown genealogist. And since I'm back this way I'm mixing in genealogy with the casino tour. I have some famous relatives buried in Louisville, Kentucky. I went to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville yesterday to visit the grave of my 1st cousin, 6 generations removed. His name was Gen. George Rogers Clark. During the American Revolution Clark put together a militia in Kentucky and went up to Indiana and Illinois and kicked British ass. In doing so he kept the British from coming down from Canada and coming in the back door of the colonies. And also in doing so he pushed the American frontier all the way to the Mississippi River. He was known in his time as "The Conqueror of the Northwest" the midwest being known as the northwest in those times. Twenty some years later his much younger brother, William Clark, as co-leader of the Lewis & Clark expedition pushed the American frontier all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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