Kentucky -- History -- To 1792
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The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784), by John Filson, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)- The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2003), by John Anthony Caruso, contrib. by John C. Inscoe (PDF at Tennessee)
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (Gutenberg text)
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (from George Imlay's 1793 edition), by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (illustrated HTML at earlyamerica.com)
- Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground, by Constance Lindsay Skinner (Gutenberg text)
- The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
- A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Kentucky -- History- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Patriots and Guerillas of East Tennessee and Kentucky (New York: J. A. Brents, 1863), by A. Brents
- The Union Cause in Kentucky, 1860-1865 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), by Thos. Speed
- Old Cane Springs: A Story of the War Between the States in Madison County, Kentucky (second printing, with corrections and additions; Louisville, KY: Standard Printing co., 1937), by John Cabell Chenault and Jonathan Truman Dorris, contrib. by Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Cane Springs: A Story of the War Between the States in Madison County, Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1936), by John Cabell Chenault and Jonathan Truman Dorris, contrib. by Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, c1955), by William H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Remember the Raisin! Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812 (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1961), by G. Glenn Clift (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
- The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Johnson County, Kentucky: A History of the County, and Genealogy of its People Up to the Year 1927 (Louisville, KY: Standard Press, 1928), by Mitchel Hall
- Memorial History of Louisville From its First Settlement to the Year 1896 (2 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Biographical Pub. Co., ca. 1896), ed. by J. Stoddard Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky, by John Gregg Fee (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- 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)
- The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798 (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1850), by Virginia
- 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
- The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (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
- Johnson County, Kentucky: A History of the County, and Genealogy of its People Up to the Year 1927 (Louisville, KY: Standard Press, 1928), by Mitchel Hall
- History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Memorial History of Louisville From its First Settlement to the Year 1896 (2 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Biographical Pub. Co., ca. 1896), ed. by J. Stoddard Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Cane Springs: A Story of the War Between the States in Madison County, Kentucky (second printing, with corrections and additions; Louisville, KY: Standard Printing co., 1937), by John Cabell Chenault and Jonathan Truman Dorris, contrib. by Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Cane Springs: A Story of the War Between the States in Madison County, Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Standard Printing Co., 1936), by John Cabell Chenault and Jonathan Truman Dorris, contrib. by Ivan E. McDougle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 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
- 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
- The Wilford-Williford Family Treks into America (2 parts in 1 volume; with reprinted accounts of Christian and Trigg counties in KY; c1959), by Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, contrib. by William Henry Perrin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1949), by Frank LeRond McVey (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of Education in Kentucky (published as Bulletin of the KY Dept. of Education v. 7 #4, 1914), ed. by Barksdale Hamlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995), by Gregory A. Waller (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Marse Henry": An Autobiography, by Henry Watterson
- The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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