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• Kentucky -- Altitudes. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Antiquities
• Kentucky -- Biography
• Kentucky -- Biography. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Boundaries
• Kentucky -- Capital and capitol
• Kentucky -- Church history
• Kentucky -- Claims vs. United States. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Constitutional history
• Kentucky -- Description and travel
• Kentucky -- Description and travel. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Economic conditions. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Fiction
• Kentucky -- Gazetteers
• Kentucky -- Genealogy
• Kentucky -- Genealogy. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- History
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• Kentucky -- In literature
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• Kentucky -- Literary collections
• Kentucky -- Militia
• Kentucky -- Militia. from old catalog
• Kentucky -- Poetry
• Kentucky -- Politics and government
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• Kentucky -- Social life and customs
• Kentucky -- Songs and music
• Kentucky in literature
• Public buildings -- Kentucky
• Adair County (Ky.)
• Barbourville (Ky.)
• Barren County (Ky.)
• Big Bone (Ky.)
• Big Sandy River Basin (Ky.)
• Bluegrass Region (Ky.)
• Bourbon County (Ky.)
• Breckinridge County (Ky.)
• Catholic Church. Diocese of Covington (Ky.)
• Catholic Church. Diocese of Louisville (Ky.)
• Christian County (Ky.)
• Clark County (Ky.)
• Clay City (Ky.)
• Colossal Cavern (Ky.)
• Columbia (Ky.)
• Covington (Ky.)
• Cumberland Gap (Ky. and Va.)
• Cumberland River Basin (Ky.)
• Edmonson County (Ky.)
• Estill County (Ky.)
• Fayette County (Ky.)
• Frankfort (Ky.)
• Franklin County (Ky.)
• Glasgow (Ky.)
• Harrison County (Ky.)
• Hazel Green (Ky.)
• Jefferson County (Ky.)
• Johnson County (Ky.)
• Kentucky Lake (Ky. and Tenn.)
• Knott County (Ky.)
• Knox County (Ky.)
• Lancaster (Ky.)
• Letcher County (Ky.)
• Lexington (Ky.)
• Lexington Hydraulic & Manufacturing Company (Ky.)
• Licking River (Ky.)
• Licking River Basin (Ky.)
• Louisville (Ky.)
• Louisville Legion (Ky.)
• Madison County (Ky.)
• Mammoth Cave (Ky.)
• McCracken County (Ky.)
• New Albany Shale (Ind. and Ky.)
• Nicholas County (Ky.)
• Paducah (Ky.)
• Powell County (Ky.)
• Republican Party (Ky.)
• Richmond (Ky.)
• Salem Association of Baptists (Ky.)
• Scott County (Ky.)
• Shawnee Steam Plant (Ky.)
• Trigg County (Ky.)
• Winchester (Ky.)
• Wolfe County (Ky.)
• Woodford County (Ky.)
• Abolitionists -- Kentucky
• Adopted children -- Kentucky
• African American Baptists -- Kentucky
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• Agriculture -- Kentucky
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• Authors, American -- Kentucky
• Birds -- Kentucky
• Bounties, Military -- Kentucky
• Caves -- Kentucky
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• Children of migrant laborers -- Kentucky
• Clergy -- Kentucky
• Coal mine accidents -- Kentucky
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• Cooking -- Kentucky
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• Crime -- Kentucky
• Criminal procedure -- Kentucky
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• Dams -- Kentucky
• Discrimination in housing -- Kentucky
• Education -- Kentucky
• Educational accountability -- Kentucky
• Educational law and legislation -- Kentucky
• Educational surveys -- Kentucky
• Elections -- Kentucky
• Episcopal Church -- Kentucky
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• Ferns -- Kentucky
• Fishery law and legislation -- Kentucky
• Folk poetry, American -- Kentucky
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• Forest fires -- Kentucky
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• Formations (Geology) -- Kentucky
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
• Fugitive slaves -- Kentucky
• Horse racing -- Kentucky
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• Human geography -- Kentucky
• Indian captivities -- Kentucky
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• Law reports, digests, etc. -- Kentucky
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• Mormons -- Kentucky
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• Mountain passes -- Kentucky
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• School hygiene -- Kentucky
• School improvement programs -- Kentucky
• Secession -- Kentucky
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• Sheep -- Kentucky
• Slave narratives -- Kentucky
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• Soldiers -- Kentucky
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• Tennessee -- Boundaries -- Kentucky
• Tobacco farmers -- Kentucky
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• Tornadoes -- Kentucky
• Trials (Murder) -- Kentucky
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• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Kentucky
• United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Regimental histories -- Kentucky
• Vendetta -- Kentucky
• Women -- Suffrage -- Kentucky
• Women civil rights workers -- Kentucky
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Kentucky

• 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)
• An address delivered commencement day, (Frankfort, Ky., J.D. Woods, public printer, 1886), by James Kennedy Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable men of Kentucky at the beginning of the 20th century (1901-1902) (Louisville, G. G. Fetter Print. Co., [1902]), by Ben La Bree (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisville information ... (Louisville, Ky., The Standard printing co., 1921), 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. : illustrated by forty engravings / by Lewis Collins. (Maysville, Ky. : L. Collins ; Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James, 1847), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are you from Kentucky? ([Louisville, Ky., 1906]), by Louisville (Ky.). Commercial Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand book of Kentucky ... Issued by I. B. Nall, commissioner of agriculture. (Louisville, Ky., G.G. Fetter Printing Co., 1902), by Labor and Statistics Kentucky. Bureau of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiftieth anniversary of the University of Kentucky, 1866-1916; ([Lexington] Pub. by order of Executive committee of Board of trustees of University of Kentucky, [1916]), by Lexington Kentucky. State university (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surveyor's book,, by Glasgow (Ky.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blades o' bluegrass; choice selections of Kentucky poetry, biographical sketches and portraits of authors. (Louisville, J. P. Morton & company, 1892), by Fannie Porter Dickey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws affecting the State live stock sanitary board and state and county live stock inspectors. ([Frankfort?], 1918), by Kentucky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky Union Railway Company. (Lexington, Ky., 1883), by Kentucky Union Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kentucky Government. (Lexington, Bureau of Government Research, University of Kentucky, 1955), by John Estill Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public health manual : laws, rules and court decisions. ([Bowling Green, Kentucky], 1919), by Kentucky. State Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. ([Frankfort], 1950), by Kentucky. Constitution Review Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official manual for the use of the courts, state and county officials and General assembly of the state of Kentucky. (Louisville, G. G. Fetter printing co., 1900), by Pauline Helm Hardin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best practices for commercial vehicle monitoring facilities design. (1995), by Nikiforos Stamatiadis, R. Clark Graves, and J. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal and proceedings of the Convention of the State of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky. : Printed by A.G. Hodges & Co., 1849 [1850]), by Kentucky. Constitutional Convention (1849-1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of infrared brake screening technology: final report. (Washington, D.C.: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 2000), by Anne-Claire Christiaen and S. J. Shaffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of the repeal of motorcycle helmet laws in Kentucky and Louisiana. (2003), by R.G. Ulmer and David F. Preusser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the debates and proceedings of the Convention for the revision of the constitution of the state of Kentucky. 1849. (Frankfort, Ky., Printed at the office of A. G. Hodges & co., 1849 [1850]), by Kentucky. Constitutional convention and Richard Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the first Constitutional convention of Kentucky, (Lexington, Ky., 1942), by Kentucky. Constitutional Convention (1792) and State bar association of Kentucky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engineering assessment and feasibility study of Chattanooga shale as a future source of uranium /, by Inc Mountain States Research and Development, United States. Department of Energy. Grand Junction Office, Bendix Field Engineering Corporation. Grand Junction Operations, and PRC Toups Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal procedure : bail and recognizance. (Frankfort : Legislative Research Commission, 1959), by Kentucky. General Assembly. Legislative Research Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• List of elevations, above sea-level, of points in Kentucky. (Frankfort, E. P. Johnson, Public Printer and Binder, 1889), by Kentucky. State Geologist (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)
• 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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• Blades o' bluegrass; choice selections of Kentucky poetry, biographical sketches and portraits of authors. (Louisville, J. P. Morton & company, 1892), by Fannie Porter Dickey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical sketches of Kentucky: embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions; (Maysville, Ky., L. Collins; Cincinnati, J. A. & U. P. James, 1850), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kentucky's new state capitol, prepared by George A. Lewis. ([Frankfort, Ky., Roberts printing co., printers ;, c1910]), by George Alexander Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the state agent for Kentucky at Washington, made to the governor, January 1, 1868. (Frankfort, Ky., J.H. Harney, public printer, 1868), by Kentucky. State agent at Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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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• Letters on the condition of Kentucky in 1825; reprinted from the Richmond enquirer; ed. by Earl Gregg Swem ... (New York city, Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1916) (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 / by Lewis Collins. (Maysville, Ky. : L. Collins ; Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James, 1847), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travelers guide to the Louisville and Nashville railroad ... (Louisville, Ky., Lucas & co., [1867]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue-grass region of Kentucky, (New York and London, Harper & brothers, 1899), by James Lane Allen (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)

• Historical sketches of Kentucky: embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions; (Maysville, Ky., L. Collins; Cincinnati, J. A. & U. P. James, 1850), by Lewis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general account of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Cambridge [Mass.] Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1876), by Kentucky. State Geologist (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the resources of the country traversed by the Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio railroad, and the Paris, Georgetown and Frankfort railroad, in the states of Virginia and Kentucky. (Cambridge, Mass., W. H. Wheeler, printer, 1881), by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (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
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• The Recovery: A Story of Kentucky (New York: F. F. Lovell Co., c1908), by Joseph A. Altsheler
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• 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)
• The phantom hunter; or, love after death, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Martians and the Coys, by Mack Reynolds, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, by Florence Lilian Bush and Isabel Graham Bush (Gutenberg ebook)
• Weeds, by Edith Summers Kelley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Autobiography of a Female Slave, by Martha Griffith Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Kentucky Warbler, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Doctor's Christmas Eve, by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Night Riders: A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky, by Henry Cleveland Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields, by Sarah Bell Hackley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky, by Everett MacDonald (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cave by the Beech Fork: A Story of Kentucky—1815, by Henry S. Spalding (Gutenberg ebook)
• Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant, by Mathew Joseph Holt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century, by Nancy Huston Banks (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Maid of the Kentucky Hills, by Edwin Carlile Litsey, illust. by John Harmon Cassel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Why Joan?, by Eleanor Mercein Kelly (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Law of Hemlock Mountain, by Hugh Lundsford, illust. by Douglas Duer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Nightriders' Feud, by Walter Caruth McConnell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tempering, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mothering on Perilous, by Lucy S. Furman, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Mary Lane McMillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Land of Long Ago, by Eliza Calvert Hall, illust. by G. Patrick Nelson and Beulah Strong (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Moccasins: A Story, by Morrison Heady (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy from Hollow Hut: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, by Isla May Mullins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kildares of Storm, by Eleanor Mercein Kelly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sunlight Patch, by Credo Fitch Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Roof Tree, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by Lee F. Conrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Love Story of Abner Stone, by Edwin Carlile Litsey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shawn of Skarrow, by James Tandy Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aunt Jane of Kentucky, by Eliza Calvert Hall, illust. by Beulah Strong (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Kentucky Ranger, by Edward T. Curnick (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ella Barnwell: A historical romance of border life, by Emerson Bennett (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Old Kentucky, by Charles Turner Dazey and Edward Marshall, illust. by Clarence H. Rowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aftermath: Part second of "A Kentucky Cardinal", by James Lane Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Round Anvil Rock: A Romance, by Nancy Huston Banks (Gutenberg ebook)

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