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Stories of Old Kentucky

Stories of Old Kentucky

by Mrs. Martha C. Grassham Purcell

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Author
Purcell, Martha C. Grassham, Mrs., 1867-
Credits
Produced by David Garcia, Ron Stephens and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Language
English
LoC Class
F396: United States local history: Old Southwest. Lower Mississippi Valley
Subject
Kentucky -- History
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37498
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37498
Release Date
September 21, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TO MY CHILDREN — EWART, LA VERNE, AND LOIS — STORIES OF — OLD KENTUCKY — BY
  2. 2.MARTHA GRASSHAM PURCELL — AUTHOR OF "SETTLEMENTS AND CESSIONS OF LOUISIANA" — MARTHA GRASSHAM PURCELL.
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.A LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT KENTUCKY — STORIES OF OLD KENTUCKY
  6. 6.WHEN THE OCEAN COVERED KENTUCKY
  7. 7.THE ABORIGINES OF KENTUCKY
  8. 8.SOME PREHISTORIC REMAINS
  9. 9.THE DISCOVERY OF KENTUCKY
  10. 10.INDIAN CLAIMS IN KENTUCKY
  11. 11.SCOUWA
  12. 12.THE GRAVEYARD OF THE MAMMOTHS
  13. 13.THE DRUID OF KENTUCKY
  14. 14.A PIONEER NOBLEMAN
  15. 15.EARLY KENTUCKY CUSTOMS
  16. 16.BOONE'S ILLUSTRIOUS PEER
  17. 17.BOONE'S TRACE
  18. 18.BOONE IN CAPTIVITY
  19. 19.BOONESBOROUGH'S BRAVE DEFENSE
  20. 20.THE LOST BABY
  21. 21.THE FIRST ROMANCE IN KENTUCKY
  22. 22.A WEDDING IN THE WILDERNESS
  23. 23.PIONEER CHILDREN
  24. 24.HOW THE PIONEERS MADE CHANGE
  25. 25.A WOMAN'S WILL
  26. 26.WHEN THE WOMEN BROUGHT THE WATER
  27. 27.THE RESULT OF ONE RASH ACT
  28. 28.TWO KENTUCKY HEROES
  29. 29.THE BATTLE OF THE BOARDS
  30. 30.THE FAITHFUL SLAVE AND HIS REWARD
  31. 31.THE DOUBLE SHOT
  32. 32.A MAN OF STRATEGY AND SAGACITY
  33. 33.THE KIND-HEARTED INDIAN
  34. 34.SAVED BY THE HUG OF A BEAR
  35. 35.A KENTUCKIAN DEFEATED THE BRITISH
  36. 36.A FAMOUS MARCH
  37. 37.THE FIRST CHRISTMAS PARTY
  38. 38.FORT JEFFERSON
  39. 39."THE HARD WINTER"
  40. 40.WILDCAT McKINNEY
  41. 41.HOW KENTUCKY WAS FORMED
  42. 42.KENTUCKY IN THE REVOLUTION
  43. 43.KENTUCKY'S PIONEER HISTORIAN
  44. 44.SPANISH CONSPIRACY
  45. 45.A KENTUCKY INVENTOR
  46. 46.OTHER KENTUCKY INVENTIONS
  47. 47.THE MAN WHO KNEW ABOUT BIRDS
  48. 48.A HERO OF HONOR
  49. 49.THE "PRIDE OF THE PENNYRILE" [3]
  50. 50.LUCY JEFFERSON LEWIS
  51. 51.NATURAL CURIOSITIES IN KENTUCKY
  52. 52.THE WORLD'S GREATEST NATURAL WONDER
  53. 53.HOW REELFOOT LAKE WAS FORMED
  54. 54.KENTUCKY VALOR IN 1812-1815
  55. 55.A TRIUMVIRATE OF ELOQUENCE
  56. 56.KENTUCKIANS IN TEXAS AND MEXICO
  57. 57.CLAY, THE GREAT COMMONER
  58. 58.KENTUCKY IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
  59. 59.WHY SOME CITIES WERE SO NAMED
  60. 60.KENTUCKY IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE
  61. 61."BESSEMER STEEL" IN KENTUCKY
  62. 62.KENTUCKY ARTISTS
  63. 63.KENTUCKY IN THE FIELD OF LETTERS
  64. 64.KENTUCKIANS IN HISTORY — FOOTNOTES

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