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• 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
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• To the farmers of Great Britain and Ireland. On the general excellence of soils of Kentucky, &c. ([Frankfurt?, 1800), by Kentucky. State Geologist, John Robert Procter, and Robert Peter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer roads and experiences of travelers ... (The A. H. Clark company, 1904), by Archer Butler Hulbert, Charles Augustus Murray, Charles Dickens, Fancis Whiting Halsey, Timothy Bigelow, Thomas Wallcut, James Hall, and Francis Baily (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health trip to the Tropics. (C. Scribner, 1853), by Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western country in 1793; reports on Kentucky and Virginia. (San Marino, Calif., 1948), by Harry Toulmin, Godfrey Davies, Marion Tinling, and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general account of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1876), by Kentucky. State Geologist (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; US access only)
• The mountain people of Kentucky. (Roessler bros., 1906), by Wm. H. Haney (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)
• Handbook of Kentucky (The Globe printing co., 1908), by Labor and Statistics Kentucky. Bureau of Agriculture and Hubert Vreeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer Kentucky; an outline of its exploration and settlement, its early cartography and primitive geography, coupled with a brief presentation of the principal trails, traces, forts, stations, springs, licks, fords and ferries used prior to the year 1800 (The State journal company, 1934), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Kentucky state parks : a brief presentation of the geology and topography of some proposed state park areas based upon original field investigations (Kentucky Geological Survey, 1927), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue-grass region of Kentucky, and other Kentucky articles (Macmillan, 1911), by James Lane Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Observations on emigration to the United States of America. Illustrated by original facts. (Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, by W. Savage, 1819), by William Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer roads and experiences of travelers ... (The A. H. Clark Company, 1904), by Archer Butler Hulbert, Charles Augustus Murray, Charles Dickens, Francis W. Halsey, Timothy Bigelow, Thomas Wallcut, and James Hall (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)
• Book of Louisville and Kentucky. Edition 1915, with pictures. (Louisville Convention and Publicity League, 1915), by Robert Wood Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: (Collins & co., 1878), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the condition of Kentucky in 1825 (Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1916), by E. G. Swem (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general account of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (E.H. Porter, Public Printer, 1880), by Kentucky. State Geologist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travelers guide to the Louisville and Nashville railroad ... (Lucas & co., 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue-grass region of Kentucky (Harper & brothers, 1899), by James Lane Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from America : containing observations on the climate and agriculture of the western states, the manners of the people, the prospects of emigrants &c., &c. (Arthur Clark Co., 1904), by James Flint and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage au Kentoukey, et sur les bords du Genesée, précédé de conseils aux libéraux, et à tous ceux qui se proposent de passer aux États-Unis. (M. Sollier, 1821), by John Filson, Louis Bridel, and M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Bridge in the Kentucky mountains on the line of the Lexington & Eastern Railway : being an illustrated description of this wonderful natural formation and its historical surroundings. (The Lexington & Eastern Railway, Passenger Dept., 1900), by Lexington & Eastern Railway. Passenger Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourteenth biennial report, Bureau of Agriculture (Brookhaven Press, 2001), by Labor and Statistics Kentucky. Bureau of Agriculture and Ion Beverly Nall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: (Collins & Co., 1874), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountain people of Kentucky. An account of present conditions with the attitude of the people toward improvement. (Robert Clarke Co., 1906), by Wm. H. Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A health trip to the tropics (S. Low, 1854), by Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809) (A. H. Clark, 1904), by Fortescue Cuming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky : history of Kentucky (Southern Historical Press, 1979), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sucker's visit to the Mammoth Cave : including a history of the experience and adventures of a party who undertook to see the cave and have some fun going there. A full and accurate description of the cave and the science of its formation with an account of the living inhabitants (Live Patron Pub. Co., 1879), by Ralph Seymour Thompson (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; US access only)
• The blue-grass region of Kentucky, and other Kentucky articles, by James Lane Allen.. (Harper & brothers, 1899), by James Lane Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mittheilungen für Auswanderer : Klima, Boden, Wälder u.s.w. von Kentucky, verglichen mit denen des Nordwestens (Major, Johnston & Barrett, 1881), by John Robert Procter, Kentucky. Bureau of Immigration, and Kentucky. State Geologist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nord-Amerika (G. Weigel, 1880), by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky Union Railway Company. (Lexington, Ky., 1883), by Kentucky Union Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Kentucky (Collins & Co., 1882), by Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountain people of Kentucky. (The R. Clarke co., 1906), by Wm. H. Haney (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)
• Historic Kentucky highways. (Division of Public Information, Kentucky Dept. of Highways, 1950), by Kentucky. Dept. of Highways. Division of Public Information (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Folklore nature trail. (Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, 1980), by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountain people in eastern Kentucky (Berea College, 1903), by George Sherwood Dickerman and Berea College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809). (A.H. Clark Co., 1904), by F. Cuming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geography of Kentucky (Harlow Pubishing Corporatin, 1958), by Joseph R. Schwendeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geography of Kentucky (Harlow Publishing Corporation, 1963), by Joseph R. Schwendeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Le pour et le contre", one of the rarest of books relating to western New York. (1914), by Louis Bridel and Henry Farr De Puy (page images at HathiTrust)
• First progress report (the Commission, 1929), by Kentucky. Progress Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le pour et le contre ([s.n.], 1914), by Louis Bridel and Frank H. Severance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky state parks, a brief presentation of the geology and topography of some proposed state park areas based upon original field investigation (Kentucky Geological survey, 1924), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky State Parks annual. (Frankfort, Ky., between 1000 and 1999), by Kentucky. Board of Public Property. State Park Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Derby and historic Kentucky (Printed by Gibbs-Inman Co., 1954), by M. Virginia Nelson and Inc Hospitality (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1), by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2), by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg ebook)
• The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucke: and an essay towards the topography, and natural history of that important country: : to which is added, an appendix, containing, I. The adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, one of the first settlers, comprehending every important occurence in the political history of that province. II. The minutes of the Piankashaw Council, held at Post St. Vincents, April 15, 1784. III. An account of the Indian nations inhabiting within the limits of the thirteen original United States, their manners and customs, and reflections on their origin. IV. The stages and distances between Philadelphia and the falls of the Ohio; from Pittsburg to Pensacola and several other places.--The whole illustrated by a new and accurate map of Kentucke, and the country adjoining, drawn from actual surveys. / By John Filson. (Wilmington [Del.], : Printed by James Adams,, 1784), by John Filson, Daniel Boone, and Henry D. Pursell (HTML at Evans TCP)

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