This puts "in permanent form the leading facts connected with the organization of the county and accounts of the men who first cut down the forests, grubbed the

Reprint of the 1882 ed. published by O. L. Baskin, Chicago, with a newly prepared index.

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union ar

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the