KY Judge and Farmer James Crutcher

Published June 29, 2022 at 6:14 AM EDT

In today's Think History, Bill Goodman tells us about Farmer James Crutcher, a Revolutionary War Veteran who arrived in the Commonwealth in the 1880's, who would travel for weeks to sell cattle.

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