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Free Download Der Kannibale Aus Kentucky: Die Wahre Geschichte Eines Gesetzlosen, Mörders Und Kannibalen (Wahres Verbrechen) (German Edition) by Ryan Green, Tanja Lampa
German | January 28, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CTJ7CC17 | 152 pages | EPUB | 1.95 Mb
Nach einer Scheidung und einer Reihe von Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Gesetz machte sich Boone Helm 1850 mit seinem Cousin auf den Weg gen Westen, um dem kalifornischen Goldrausch nachzujagen. Als sein Cousin in letzter Minute kniff, wurde Helm wütend und stach ihn brutal nieder.

Free Download Roger D. Hunt, "Colonels in Blue-Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary"
English | ISBN: 0786473185 | 2013 | 260 pages | PDF | 65 MB
This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries are arranged first by state and then by regiment, and provide a biographical sketch of each colonel focusing on his Civil War service. Many of the colonels covered herein never rose above that rank, failing to win promotion to brigadier general or brevet brigadier general, and have therefore received very little scholarly attention prior to this work.

Free Download Ross A. Webb, "Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 081319315X, 0813102472 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 0.3 mb
Although Kentucky was not subject to reconstruction as such, the period of readjustment following the Civil War was a troubled one for the Commonwealth. Violence begun by guerillas continued for years. In addition, white "Regulators" tried to cow the new freedmen and keep them in a perpetual state of fearful submission that would assure the agricultural labor supply.

Free Download James Wallace Hammack, "Kentucky and the Second American Revolution: The War of 1812"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0813102162, 0813193133 | EPUB | pages: 89 | 1.6 mb
Kentucky’s involvement in the War of 1812 and political, social, and psychological consequences for the state are examined

Free Download James Wallace Hammack, "Kentucky and the Second American Revolution: The War of 1812"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0813102162, 0813193133 | EPUB | pages: 89 | 1.6 mb
Kentucky’s involvement in the War of 1812 and political, social, and psychological consequences for the state are examined

Free Download Lowell H. Harrison, "A Kentucky Sampler: Essays from The Filson Club History Quarterly 1926-1976"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813152585, 0813113601 | EPUB | pages: 452 | 1.1 mb
The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation’s finest regional historical journals. Over the years it has published excellent essays on virtually every aspect of Kentucky history. Gathered together here for the first time are twenty-eight selections, chosen from the first fifty years of the journal’s publication. These essays span the range of Kentucky history and culture from frontier criminals to best sellers by Kentucky women writers, and from Indian place names to twentieth century bank failures. Included among the essayists are Thomas D. Clark, J. Winston Coleman, Jr., Robert E. McDowell, Lowell Harrison, Hambleton Tapp, Julia Neal, Allan M. Trout, and many other well-known authorities on Kentucky history.

Free Download James F. Hopkins, "A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0813109302 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 3.4 mb
It is hard to believe that at one time burley tobacco was not the chief cash crop in Kentucky. Yet for more than half a century hemp dominated the state’s agricultural production.

English | 2009 | ISBN: 0813192870, 0813102189 | EPUB | pages: 90 | 0.2 mb
Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered "no people in the nation…more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time." Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation have produced in Appalachia a backwoods culture which made its people susceptible to an outside exploitation of their resources that has perpetrated on them a passive society largely dependant on relief.

Free Download Robert Schenkkan, "The Kentucky Cycle"
English | 2016 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 0802125271 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
In this series of nine short plays, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan has created a mesmerizing epic saga of rural Kentucky and an unblinking look at the truth behind our American mythology. Spanning two centuries and seven generations, this is the story of three families whose lives are irrevocably intertwined. From the darker realities of our pioneer heritage to the bloody lessons of the Civil War, from the inspiring battles between Union coal miners and deal-making management to the harsh environmental legacy of strip-mining, this fascinating work chronicles the lives of people who use any means possible to carve out a better place for themselves in an often brutal, unpredictable world. A remarkable theatrical event, The Kentucky Cycle is a compelling and unsentimental look at the men and women who founded this country and a powerful allegory for our times.

Free Download Stuart W. Sanders, "Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky’s Largest Civil War Battle"
English | 2012 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1609495675, 1540206874 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
The Battle of Perryville, fought on October 8, 1862, was the largest and most significant Civil War battle fought in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.