Three rivers : a Kentucky folk history / Dan Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Dan, 1954- author.

Contributor:

James Lader Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

River life--Kentucky--History.

River life.

Rolling Fork River (Ky.).

Nolin River (Ky.)--History.

Nolin River (Ky.).

Rough River (Ky.)--History.

Rough River (Ky.).

Nelson County (Ky.)--History, Local.

Nelson County (Ky.).

Physical Description:

viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]

Summary:

"Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic of them: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive, graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Rolling Fork

Introduction

One. The Struggle Begins

Two. Trailblazers

Three. Whiskey and Salt

Four. The Catholics Arrive

Five. The Struggles of Thomas Lincoln

Six. Steamboats and Railroads

Seven. Thunder in the Valley

Eight. Struggling Just to Live

Nine. Too Dry, Then Too Wet

Ten. The Rolling Fork Today

pt. Two The Nolin River

Eleven. The First People

Twelve. The River Gets a New Name

Thirteen. Devil on the Loose

Fourteen. Two Presidents, Two Fathers

Fifteen. The Remarkable Stephen

Sixteen. Blue and Gray on the Nolin

Seventeen. The Prosperous Years

Eighteen. Progress

Nineteen. Hard Times

Twenty. The Nolin Today

pt. Three Rough River

Twenty-One. The Legend of Spanish Fort

Twenty-Two. Settlers and Speculators

Twenty-Three. Murder at Pine Knob

Twenty-Four. Falls of Rough

Twenty-Five. The Price of War

Twenty-Six. Confederates

Twenty-Seven. Sinews of Steel

Twenty-Eight. Dying Time

Twenty-Nine. That High, Lonesome Sound

Thirty. Rough River Today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Lader Fund.

ISBN:

9781476691909

1476691908

OCLC:

1346215099

Publisher Number:

99993272672