Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REV

Summary: A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Racing 2005

Summary: Four theatrical families of the 1980's recreate the most wanted criminal families of the 1860's. This portrayal of the Jesse James gang is a rapidfire succession of thrilling moments -- the bandits' lightning attacks on banks, trains and stagecoaches ; their hairbreadth escapes from the law ; Jesse's jubilant wedding celebration ; and the tragic Great Northfield, Minnesota raid.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Long 2001

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LON

Summary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAR

Summary: Set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607, this film tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. The journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NEW

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie New 2006

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD NEW

Clift, G. Glenn (Garrett Glenn)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1987

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3769 C

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar

Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUN

Contents: CD 1. Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett & Rutherford) -- The dying soldier (Buell Kazee) -- Little rabbit ; Rabbit where's your mammy (Crockett Family Mountaineers) -- I truly understand you love another man (Shortbuckle Roarke & Family) -- Eighth of January (Ted Gossett's Band) -- All night long blues (Burnett & Rutherford) -- Shipping port (Jimmy Johnson's String Band) -- The Rowan County crew...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KEN
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD COUNTRY KEN

Henson, Heather.

Summary: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEN

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: "The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RIC

Morgan, Robert

Summary: Often obscured by myth and folklore, Daniel Boone is as fascinating a character as any other American son. Here, Robert Morgan chronicles the life life of the frontier legend.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BOONE, DANIEL MOR

Contents: disc 1. Old-age pension blues -- Hook & line -- John Henry -- Pretty Polly -- Old Reuben (Bill Cornett) -- Spring of '65 -- Sally in the garden -- Barbara Allen (J.D. Cornett) -- When we shall meet -- Amazing grace (Old Baptist Church) -- Across the rocky mountain -- Graveyard blues -- Cripple Creek -- True love (Roscoe Holcomb) -- Sally in the garden -- Lost Indian -- Hollow poplar (Marion...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MOU

Santella, Andrew.

Summary: A biography of Daniel Boone, focusing on his efforts as a pioneer and trailblazer during America's westward expansion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 SAN

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendall Sandefur 1965

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Knight, Mary, (E. Mary)

Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KNI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNI

Morgan, Robert

Summary: This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 MOR

Brown, John Mason

Contents: Imprisoned in a wagon -- How not to fight Indians -- More elbowroom -- History comes knocking -- The secret door -- The sting of wasps -- Alone in Kentucky -- The fire is lighted -- War on the frontier -- The Transylvania dream -- The storm breaks -- An eventful Sunday -- Captured by the Shawnees -- Chief Blackfish's "son" -- A summer of suspense -- Days of terror -- White man's cruelty -- Red...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BOO

Reigler, Susan

Summary: Like wine lovers who dream of traveling to Bordeaux or beer enthusiasts with visions of the breweries of Belgium, bourbon lovers plan their pilgrimages to Kentucky's bourbon country. And what a country it is! Some of the most famous distilleries are tucked away in the scenic countryside of the Bluegrass region, stretching between Louisville, Bardstown, and Lexington. Locals and tourists alike...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.252 REI

Summary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLE

Kozar, Richard.

Summary: Presents a biography of the legendary frontiersman who explored Kentucky and the route to the West leading to American expansion of the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BOONE KOZ

Summary: After being dumped by his girlfriend, Peter knows that he is a man stuck in a dead end life. He decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which then proceeds to wreak havoc upon his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIG

Summary: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up getting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KISS

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIS