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Three Rivers: A Kentucky Folk History

Three Rivers: A Kentucky Folk History


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Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 Part One—The Rolling Fork Introduction 5 One. The Struggle Begins 7 Two. Trailblazers 12 Three. Whiskey and Salt 22 Four. The Catholics Arrive 27 Five. The Struggles of Thomas Lincoln 34 Six. Steamboats and Railroads 41 Seven. Thunder in the Valley 46 Eight. Struggling Just to Live 60 Nine. Too Dry, Then Too Wet 64 Ten. The Rolling Fork Today 71 Part Two—The Nolin River Introduction 83 Eleven. The First People 85 Twelve. The River Gets a New Name 90 Thirteen. Devil on the Loose 96 Fourteen. Two Presidents, Two Fathers 103 Fifteen. The Remarkable Stephen 109 Sixteen. Blue and Gray on the Nolin 118 Seventeen. The Prosperous Years 129 Eighteen. Progress 139 Nineteen. Hard Times 145 Twenty. The Nolin Today 152 Part Three—Rough River Introduction 159 ­Twenty-One. The Legend of Spanish Fort 160 ­Twenty-Two. Settlers and Speculators 163 ­Twenty-Three. Murder at Pine Knob 174 ­Twenty-Four. Falls of Rough 182 ­Twenty-Five. The Price of War 189 ­Twenty-Six. Confederates 200 ­Twenty-Seven. Sinews of Steel 207 ­Twenty-Eight. Dying Time 218 ­Twenty-Nine. That High, Lonesome Sound 225 Thirty. Rough River Today 234 Chapter Notes 241 Bibliography and Note to Readers 259 Index 273

About the Author :
Dan Lee has degrees in history from Murray State University and Western Kentucky University. He lives in Hardin County, Kentucky.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781476691909
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 293
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Kentucky Folk History
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1476691908
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 293
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 449 gr


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