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Sister States, Enemy States

The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee

by Gary R. Matthews, Thomas Mackey, Jonathan M. Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
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by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001

Kentucky has a rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Lynwood Montell has harvested dozens of tales of haunted houses and family ghosts from all over the Bluegrass state. Many of the stories were collected from elders by young people and are recounted exactly as they were gathered. Haunted Houses and...
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by Richard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1991

Here are three tragedies from early Kentucky history: the defeat of a small army of Kentuckians by Indians at Blue Licks in 1782, the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews in western Kentucky in 1807, and the bizarre Beauchamp-Sharp murder in Frankfort in 1825. Taylor mixes history with good storytelling and a look at how human shortcomings sometimes lead to ruin.
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The Battle Rages Higher

The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry

by Kirk C. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010

" The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9...
Cover of More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails
by Joy Perrine, Susan Reigler
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Ninety-five percent of the world's bourbon whiskey is produced in Kentucky, and the drink is as distinctive to the state as Thoroughbred horses and Bluegrass music. As America's native spirit enjoys booming popularity worldwide, award-winning bartender Joy Perrine and celebrated restaurant critic...
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by Lowell H. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010

The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against...
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Raccoon John Smith

Frontier Kentucky's Most Famous Preacher

by Elder John Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005

The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars...
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What Comes Down to Us

25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets

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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky's most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has lived in Kentucky for more than two...
Cover of Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010

In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the business of death as it has been practiced in Kentucky over the past fifty years. The collection...
Cover of Kentucky Folklore
by R. Gerald Alvey
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1989

" Thicker'n fiddlers in hell. Independent as a hog on ice. If a bride makes her own clothes, it's bad luck. It'll snow in May if it thunders in February. How's a hen on a fence like a penny? What's the reddest side of an apple? Learn what folklore and folk culture are and enjoy a generous helping of sayings, rhymes, songs, tall tales, superstitions and riddles from Kentucky.
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Sue Mundy

A Novel of the Civil War

by Richard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006

October 11, 1864. The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies and once-proud soldiers into drifters, thieves, and outlaws. Stephen Gano Burbridge, radical Republican and military commander of the district of Kentucky, has declared his...
Cover of Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Montell collected stories from all areas of the state to represent the diversity of social and...
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by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

"A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?' She thought for a few minutes, then said, 'What was that date again?'" -- from the book Lawyers...
Cover of The Kentucky Barbecue Book
by Wes Berry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Kentucky's culinary fame may have been built on bourbon and fried chicken, but the Commonwealth has much to offer the barbecue thrill-seeker. The Kentucky Barbecue Book is a feast for readers who are eager to sample the finest fare in the state. From the banks of the Mississippi to the hidden...
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