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Walton's Creek Land of Our Fathers

Ashby, Rickie Zayne

Walton's Creek: Land of Our Fathers is the fictional story of the Atlee and Caughill families as they live, love, and survive in the hills and hollers of Walton's Creek, Kentucky. The dialogue is this simple story is true to the dialect, vocabulary, and phrasings of the people of rural Western Kentucky in the early twentieth century. Volume One of a two-volume set, the narrative flows through time from the years 1913-1971. Walton's Creek nativ...

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Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Kentucky

Fischer, Gerald W

While the American Civil War is well-known for large-scale battles that involved thousands of men, like Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Shiloh, the conflict between North and South was also fought in small communities across the Bluegrass, where armed men were quick to settle differing opinions with the barrel of a gun. Such was the case along the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware, where family loyalties were divided equ...

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Leaving the Homeplace

Anton Mary Sue (Shy)

In Leaving the Home Place--Tales Beyond the Levee, author Mary Sue "Shy" Anton narrates her life story that began in the tiny Mississippi River town of New Madrid, Missouri. Mary Sue (Shy), the third of ten children, was born in a tenant house during the Great Depression and later moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she met the love of her life, David Anton. Together they had many adventures across the country before settling in the suburbs ...

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King Kelly Coleman, Kentucky's Greatest Basketball Legend...

West, Gary P

The story of Kelly Coleman, who played basketball at Wayland High School in eastern Kentucky from 1952-56, scoring 4, 337 points during his high school career. Kelly was the all-time scoring leading for boy's high school basketball until 2023, a record that stood for over six decades. The son of a coal miner, Kelly was described as "the greatest high school player who ever lived" by Coach Adolph Rupp and "one of the most exciting players in Ke...