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• Kentucky -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
• Kentucky -- Description and travel -- 1981-

• My Old Kentucky Home, or, Experience From life, by Pascal Perry Belew (PDF at nnu.edu)
• First Explorations of Kentucky: Doctor Thomas Walker's Journal of an Exploration of Kentucky in 1750, Being the First Record of a White Man's Visit to the Interior of That Territory, Now First Published Entire, with Notes and Biographical Sketch; Also Colonel Christopher Gist's Journal of a Tour Through Ohio and Kentucky in 1751 (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1898), ed. by J. Stoddard Johnston, contrib. by Thomas Walker and Christopher Gist
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Description of Kentucky, in North America; To Which are Prefixed Miscellaneous Observations Respecting the United States (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1945), by Harry Toulmin, ed. by Thomas Dionysius Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Charlemont, or, The Pride of the Village: A Tale of Kentucky, by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text)
• Enola: or, Her Fatal Mistake (Saint Louis: Pub. for the author, 1886), by M. T. Valentine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier Angel: A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life (New York: Hurst and Co.,, c1910), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg text)
• The Mettle of the Pasture (1903), by James Lane Allen
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Recovery: A Story of Kentucky (New York: F. F. Lovell Co., c1908), by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Reign of Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg text)
• The Sheriff of the Beech Fork: A Story of Kentucky (third edition; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., 1903), by Henry S. Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tempest and Sunshine (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., 1909), by Mary Jane Holmes (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War, by John Fox, illust. by F. Graham Cootes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Time of Man: A Novel (New York: Viking Press, 1926), by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of a Female Slave (New York: Redfield, 1857), by Martha Griffith Browne (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Heart of the Hills, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)

• A Guide to Kentucky Place Names (electronic edition), by Kentucky Geological Survey (searchable HTML at uky.edu)

• A History and Genealogy of the Garreds, Jarretts of Kentucky, and Many Related Families (Whiting, IA: J. Holmes Pub. Co., c1957), by Ulysses Victoria Garred (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Lander family of Virginia and Kentucky (Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1926), by David Lander (page images at HathiTrust)

• First Explorations of Kentucky: Doctor Thomas Walker's Journal of an Exploration of Kentucky in 1750, Being the First Record of a White Man's Visit to the Interior of That Territory, Now First Published Entire, with Notes and Biographical Sketch; Also Colonel Christopher Gist's Journal of a Tour Through Ohio and Kentucky in 1751 (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1898), ed. by J. Stoddard Johnston, contrib. by Thomas Walker and Christopher Gist
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky and the Northwest Territory (Staunton, VA: Press of the McClure Co., 1943), by John Walter Wayland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the War of Independence, and of the Earlier Settlements in the West (Louisville: J. F. Brennan, 1855), by T. Marshall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace, Some Time a Justice of the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky (Louisville: J. P. Morton and Co., 1888), by William H. Whitsitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794; Together With an Appendix (Philadelphia: Grigg and Elliot, 1832), by John A. McClung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Volume One: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
  • Volume Two: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • Volume Three: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1921), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Young Trailers, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text)
• The Silent Alarm (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1926), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1906), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry
  • illustrated HTML at littlecolonel.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at Indiana

• Informational Bulletins (including recent General Assembly Actions), by Kentucky General Assembly (PDF files at lrc.ky.gov)
• "Marse Henry": An Autobiography, by Henry Watterson
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Checklist of Kentucky State Publications, by Kentucky State Archives and Records Service and Kentucky Division of Archives and Records (partial serial archives)

• 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 Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clasping Hands With Generations Past (Cincinnati, OH: Privately printed by Wiesen-Hart Press, 1932), by Emma Rouse Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Birds of Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1945), by J. D. Figgins, ed. by W. D. Funkhouser (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coal Industry in Kentucky: An Historical Sketch (Frankfort: The State Journal Co., 1922), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blue Grass Cook Book (New York: Fox, Duffield and Co., 1904), by Minnie C. Fox (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• The Validity of Gains in Scores on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), by Daniel M Koetz and Sheila I. Barron (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Validity of Gains in Scores on the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS), by Daniel M Koetz and Sheila I. Barron (PDF files at rand.org)

• 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)

• Ferns of Kentucky (Louisville: Printed by J. P. Morton and Co., 1878), by John Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Kentucky Superstitions (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by Daniel Lindsey Thomas and Lucy Blayney Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legends of the War of Independence, and of the Earlier Settlements in the West (Louisville: J. F. Brennan, 1855), by T. Marshall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

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