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Author : Henry P. Scalf
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570721656
Presents the history of the exploration, settlement, and development of the vast mountain empire encompassed by several eastern Kentucky counties that pays attention to Civil War sites in the area.
Author : Henry Preston Scalf
Publisher :
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
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Author : Henry Preston Scalf
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Illustrated version of the traditional song about loving everything and everyone.
Author : Henry Preston Scalf
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
History from earliest times of 12-county area of Eastern Kentucky centered by the Big Sandy, Licking and North Fork Kentucky Rivers, plus a few southeastern counties.
Author : Larry D. Thacker
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570723162
A near-obsessive pursuit of ghost stories and odd superstitions cranks up this serious study of Appalachian tales of the supernatural and their origin in both old-world customs and real historical events. An effort to preserve and record one aspect of a dying way of life, the book relies on interviews and historic documents to search for the facts behind local lore of murder, witchcraft, and weird hauntings. Several campfire-worthy ghost stories are recounted in their entirety—including "The Swinging Gate of Fern Lake Hollow"—and an unexpectedly large number of stories about aliens and UFOs provide an interesting comparison of three-century-old mysteries and those stirred up in comparatively recent times
Author : Emily Foster
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0813158222
Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization -- and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers -- hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants -- established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe, the Wyandots, left in 1843, they were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience came to a close. Anyone fascinated by the panorama of America's westward migration will respond to the dramatic stories told in these pages.
Author : Cratis D. Williams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786414901
Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a log cabin on Caines Creek, Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1911. To use his own terms, he was "a complete mountaineer." This book is an edited compilation of Williams' memoirs of his childhood. These autobiographical reminiscences often take the form of a folktale, with individual titles such as "Preacher Lang Gets Drunk" and "The Double Murder at Sledges." Schooled initially in traditional stories and ballads, he learned to read by the light of his grandfather's whiskey still and excelled at the local one-room school. After becoming the first person from Caines Creek to attend and graduate from the county high school in Louisa, he taught in one-room schools while pursuing his own education. He earned both a BA and MA from the University of Kentucky before moving to Appalachian State Teacher's College in 1942; later he earned a Ph.D. from New York University and then returned to Appalachian State.
Author : Stephen Aron
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1999-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801861987
'How the West Was Lost' tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost. It focuses on the common ground between Indians and backcountry settlers which was not found.
Author : Otis K. Rice
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813129013
Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1250247144
The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.