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

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...

Format: text

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)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1987

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3769 C

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

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

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

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

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 RAC

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

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

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

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

Ormsbee, Kathryn

Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ORM

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

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...

Format: text

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2021

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

Townsend, Jacinda.

Summary: Two friends from the mountains of eastern Kentucky try to retain their friendship when one of them is invited to play the Apollo with a jazz group while the other sinks lower in her poor, backward, backwoods life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOW

Berry, Wendell

Summary: Seven Kentucky stories set in the 1940s and featuring farmer Ptolemy Proudfoot and his schoolteacher wife, Miss Minnie. In The Solemn Boy, they invite a couple of hobos to a meal, while Nearly to the Fair comprises Proudfoot's amusing reflections on travel by car. By the author of What Are People For?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantehon Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Draper, Lyman Copeland

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1998

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

Felldin, Jeanne Robey.

Format: text

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