Kentucky's Last Frontier
Title | Kentucky's Last Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Henry P. Scalf |
Publisher | The Overmountain Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | 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.
Kentucky's Last Frontier
Title | Kentucky's Last Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Preston Scalf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky |
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Kentucky's Last Frontier
Title | Kentucky's Last Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Preston Scalf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
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Illustrated version of the traditional song about loving everything and everyone.
Kentucky's Last Frontier
Title | Kentucky's Last Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Preston Scalf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
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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.
The Ohio Frontier
Title | The Ohio Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Foster |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2014-10-17 |
Genre | 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.
Mountain Mysteries
Title | Mountain Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | Larry D. Thacker |
Publisher | The Overmountain Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006-11 |
Genre | 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
Tales from Sacred Wind
Title | Tales from Sacred Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Cratis D. Williams |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2003-03-11 |
Genre | 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.