Stories Of Old Kentucky

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Martha Grassham Purcell
• ISBN: 1230000012549
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: August 14, 2012
• Language: English

CONTENTS

When the Ocean Covered Kentucky
The Aborigines of Kentucky
Some Prehistoric Remains
The Discovery of Kentucky
Indian Claims in Kentucky
Scouwa
The Graveyard of the Mammoths
The Druid of Kentucky
A Pioneer Nobleman
Early Kentucky Customs
Boone's Illustrious Peer
Boone's Trace
Boone in Captivity
Boonesborough's Brave Defense
The Lost Baby
The First Romance in Kentucky
A Wedding in the Wilderness
Pioneer Children
How the Pioneers Made Change
A Woman's Will
When the Women Brought the Water
The Result of One Rash Act
Two Kentucky Heroes
The Battle of the Boards
The Faithful Slave and His Reward
The Double Shot
A Man of Strategy and Sagacity
The Kind-hearted Indian
Saved by the Hug of a Bear
A Kentuckian Defeated the British
A Famous March
The First Christmas Party
Fort Jefferson
"The Hard Winter"
Wildcat McKinney
How Kentucky was Formed
Kentucky in the Revolution
Kentucky's Pioneer Historian
Spanish Conspiracy
A Kentucky Inventor
Other Kentucky Inventions
The Man who Knew about Birds
A Hero of Honor
The "Pride of the Pennyrile"
Lucy Jefferson Lewis
Natural Curiosities in Kentucky
The World's Greatest Natural Wonder
How Reelfoot Lake Was Formed
Kentucky Valor in 1812-1815
A Triumvirate of Eloquence
Kentuckians in Texas and Mexico
Clay, the Great Commoner
Kentucky in the War between the States
Why Some Cities were so Named
Kentucky in the Field of Science
"Bessemer Steel" in Kentucky
Kentucky Artists
Kentucky in the Field of Letters
Kentuckians in History