Have you ever wondered why the American colors are red, white, and blue? Did you know that our national mascot was almost a turkey rather than a bald eagle? Can you...

Signed, 1934, First edition, Hardcover, 361 pages. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York.  Book jacket is protected in mylar. Jacket has fading at the spine,...

On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they ...

Several years ago the Jesse Stuart Foundation published a theme book entitled Appalachian Christmas Stories. The book was the best seller at the 1998 Kentucky Book Fair, and ...

This is the first ever Jim Shore book of its kind. Jim Shore grew up in rural South Carolina, the son of artistic parents who instilled a love of the traditional...

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late...

Theodore Roosevelt proved that a political figure could also excel in military matters and literary endeavors. This work covers a most interesting list of heros in...

Song Hawkins is a beautiful, tough, but lonely New York City businesswoman who thinks she's met the man of her dreams in Cable...

Delia Webster, a teacher from Vermont, moved to Kentucky and in 1844 helped Methodist minister Calvin Fairbank transport the slave Lewis Hayden and his family to...

Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard.

This is the ultimate reference to fabricating primitive shelters. This is a reprint of the classic book published in 1914. Authored by...

The New York Times closely covered the political career and presidency of Abraham Lincoln: his political rise, the early years of his presidency, the...

Following World War I, our nation entered a decade of national prosperity. Businesses flourished, and the standard of living rose. Jobs...

Alpha M. Hutchinson spent his lifetime as an employee of The Citizens Bank of Morehead. He began his career at the bank in 1940 when, clad in a clean pair of...

Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley. A fictionalized account of Jenny Wiley's captivity and escape based on her own narrative. Thomas and ...

In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific With Lewis and Clark. At the outset, In Search of York promises to "rescue" York, an enslaved body servant belonging to William Clark from historicalobscurity and mistreatment. The author, Robert B. Betts, asserts ...

The Women's War in the South recounts the manner in which women experienced the Civil War and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts...

"The stories shine. . . . More important, they celebrate people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an...

Two “quare women” – not yet out of their twenties – set forth in August of 1899 on what became...

The Kentucky River has had five lives: pre-history, the era of flatboats and keel boars, the golden age of packet boats, the decline and decay of the River, and the...