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Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
History of Kentucky (2 volumes, revised and brought to date up to 1874; Covington, KY: Collins and Co., 1878), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony, Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies, the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and its Subsequent Development (seventh edition; Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Co., 1887), by William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky; With an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region (Chicago: O.L. Baskin and Co., 1882), ed. by William Henry Perrin, contrib. by Robert Peter
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The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981 (University Press of Kentucky, 1986), by James C. Klotter (page images at HathiTrust)
Kentucky politicians. (Press of the Courier-Journal job printing company, 1886), by John J. McAfee (page images at HathiTrust)
The adventures of Daniel Boone : the Kentucky rifleman (D. Appleton & Co., 1844), by Uncle Philip (page images at HathiTrust)
The pioneer to the Kentucky emigrant, a brief topographical & historical description of the state of Kentucky, to which are added some original verses (University of Kentucky publications committee, Margaret Voorhies Haggin trust, 1942), by John Magill and Thomas Dionysius Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
The Political Club, Danville, Kentucky, 1786-1790. Being an account of an early Kentucky society from the original papers recently found. (John P. Morton, 1894), by Thomas Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc. (L. Collins, 1848), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone and the hunters of Kentucky (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by W. H. Bogart (page images at HathiTrust)
The old masters of the Bluegrass: Jouett. Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan, Hart (J. P. Morton & co., 1902), by Samuel Woodson Price (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack (Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, Karen Lynn Davidson, and Noel A. Carmack (page images at HathiTrust)
A sesqui-centennial history of Kentucky; a narrative historical edition ... preserving the record of the growth and development of the commonwealth, and chronicling the genealogical and memorial records of its prominent families and personages. (Historical Record Assn., 1945), by Frederick A. Wallis and Hambleton Tapp (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky (J.P. Morton & Company, inc., 1924), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of Kentucky Baptists : from 1769 to 1885, including more than 800 biographical sketches (J. R. Baumes, 1885), by John H. Spencer and Burrilla B. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone, pioneer of Kentucky (Dodd & Mead, 1872), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
Kentuckians in history and literature. (Neale Pub. Co., 1907), by John Wilson Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
An Outline of the history of the church in the state of Kentucky, during a period of forty years : containing the memoirs of Rev. David Rice, and sketches of the origin and present state of particular churches, and of the lives and labours of a number of men who were eminent and useful in their day (T.T. Skillman, 1824), by David Rice and Robert H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
Press reference book of prominent Kentuckians; contains portraits and biographical sketches of men prominent ... in the state of Kentucky; also pictures of state, municipal and other buildings ... (The Standard printing company, incorporated, 1916), by Ben La Bree (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketches of Kentucky: embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions; with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc. (L. Collins;, 1850), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities (Lewis Pub. Co., 1912), by E. Polk Johnson and Lewis Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Kentucky (The American Historical Society, 1922), by Charles Kerr, E. Merton Coulter, and William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
Kentucky pioneer women, Columbian poems and prose sketches (Press of R. Clarke and company, 1893), by Mary Florence Taney (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions : with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc. : illustrated by forty engravings (L. Collins ;, 1847), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Kentucky: mother of governors (Kentucky State Historical Society, 1910), by John Wilson Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone (D. Appleton, 1913), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
The lawyers and lawmakers of Kentucky (The Lewis publishing company, 1897), by H. Levin and George Du Relle (page images at HathiTrust)
Life of Daniel Boone (Lee and Shepard ;, 1854), by W. H. Bogart (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone (A.L. Burt, 1902), by Cecil B. Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of Daniel Boone : the founder of the state of Kentucky (A.L. Burt Co., 1902), by Cecil B. Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and times of Colonel Daniel Boone : comprising history of the early settlement of Kentucky (G.G. Evans, 1859), by Cecil B. Hartley (page images at HathiTrust)
Blades o' bluegrass; choice selections of Kentucky poetry, biographical sketches and portraits of authors. (J. P. Morton & company, 1892), by Fannie Porter Dickey (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky. (Dodd & Mead, 1876), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: (Collins & Co., 1874), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
The life of James Francis Leonard : the first practical sound-reader of the Morse alphabet ... A paper read before the Filson Club at its meeting, October 5, 1908. (J.P. Morton, 1909), by John Wilson Townsend and Samuel Woodson Price (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky : history of Kentucky (Southern Historical Press, 1979), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Kentucky (Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Blades o' bluegrass; choice selections of Kentucky poetry, biographical sketches and portraits of authors. (J. P. Morton & company, 1892), by Fanny Porter Dickey (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Kentucky (Collins & Co., 1882), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
The biographical encyclopedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century. (J. M. Armstrong & company, 1878), by J.M. Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
Biographical sketches of prominent Negro men and women of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky., 1897), by W. D. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky : (Pub. by the author, R. H. Collins, 1877), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial record of western Kentucky ... (The Lewis publishing company, 1904), by Lewis Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Biographical cyclopedia of the commonwealth of Kentucky. (Chicago, Philadelphia, J.M. Gresham Co., 1896), by John M. Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
Who's who in Kentucky; a biographical assembly of notable Kentuckians, 1936. (The Standard printing co., incorporated, 1936), by Ernest C. Miller and Mary Young Southard (page images at HathiTrust)
Rafinesque's Kentucky friends. (Priv. print, 1936), by Harry B. Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Kentucky. (The S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1928), by Samuel M. Wilson and Temple Bodley (page images at HathiTrust)
Traipse and tell (Eve Print. Co., 1962), by Lula E. Dalton (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas Martin Brown, October 14, 1878-January 22, 1920. ([s.n.], 1920), by C. I. Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
Doctor Ancil Gatliff. (s. n., 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
Daniel Boone : the pioneer of Kentucky (Dodd, Mead, 1875), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
Who's who in Kentucky. (Historical Records Association, 1955), by Historical Records Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. (Maysville, Ky. : L. Collins, 1850., 1850), by Lewis Collins and William Henry Green Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kentucky in Washington; history in brief of participation of Kentucky, through Kentuckians, in affairs at Washington, 1792-1928 (Standard Printing Co., 1928), by Lee Lamar Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Kentucky (John P. Morton & Co., 1924), by Lewis Collins and Richard Henry Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of the Republican party in Kentucky (J.P. Morton & Company, Incorporated, 1929), by E. A. Jonas (page images at HathiTrust)

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