Wilkinson, Crystal

Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WIL

Clift, G. Glenn (Garrett Glenn)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1987

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3769 C

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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendall Sandefur 1965

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

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...

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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...

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2020

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

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

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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BOONE KOZ

Dominé, David

Summary: This true crime saga--with an eccentric Southern backdrop--introduces the reader to the story of a murder in a crumbling Louisville mansion and the decades of secrets and corruption that live within the old house's walls. On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried in the wine cellar of a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville. James Carroll, shot and stabbed the year before, has lain for 7...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOM

Montgomery, Ben

Summary: A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021

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

Draper, Lyman Copeland

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.902 DRA

Felldin, Jeanne Robey.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Felld
1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN CENSUS KENTUCY 1820

Rodenberg, Shawna Kay

Summary: "A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODENBERG,SHAWNA KAY ROD

Chambers, Cassie

Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, CASSIE CHA

Drury, Bob

Summary: "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 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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

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

Einboden, Jeffrey

Summary: "On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler from the American frontier, who urgently requested a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 EIN

Ludwick, Cameron M.

Summary: A drive straight across the Bluegrass State takes nearly eight hours. But that would bypass all the worthwhile distractions between Paw Paw in Pike County and the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi River in Fulton County. Treasures like Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home that rests inside a Greek-style temple. Or the Jefferson Davis monument rising from a field in Fairview. From rip-roaring barn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USA

Pearl, Matthew

Summary: Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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

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

Schweitzer, George Keene

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Schweitzer 1981

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3769 Schwe

Hamilton, Sue L.

Summary: Explores the history of the Kentucky Derby, presenting information about the race's dirt track at Churchill Downs, race rules, and famous horses, jockeys, and other people associated with the race.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 798.4006 HAM

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J798.4 HAM

Lofaro, Michael A.

Contents: "Let the girls do the spelling" : the boyhood of Daniel Boone -- Soldier, suitor, hunter, explorer -- "In quest of the country of Kentucke" -- Henderson's imfamous company of land pyrates" : Transylvania -- Cutting the Wilderness Road -- Revolution and rescue on the frontier -- Sel-tow-ee, son of Blackfish -- Patriot or traitor? : Boonesborough besieged -- From pauper to legislator -- "Our...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2003

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