Weird Kentucky
Author: Jeffrey Scott Holland
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1402754388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to the odd and interesting history, places, and people in Kentucky.
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Offbeat Kentuckians
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780913383803
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Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: McClanahan Publishing House
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780913383902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the pages of Kentucky history come stories of offbeat, quirky, characters from the Commonwealth who, whether by choice or by circumstance, made their mark with their eccentricity. History becomes interesting again and students are entertained with tales from these oddities and oddballs.
Hidden History of Kentucky Political Scandals
Author: Robert Schrage and John Schaaf
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467145823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"At various points in history, Kentucky's politics and government have been rocked by scandal, and each episode defined the era in which it happened. In 1826, Governor Desha pardoned his own son for murder. In a horrific crime, Governor Goebel was assassinated in 1900. James Wilkinson was branded a traitor against Kentucky and the nation. "Honest Dick Tate" ran away with massive amounts of money from the state treasury. In modern times, Operation BOPTROT resulted in perhaps the biggest scandal in the state. Authors Robert Schrage and John Schaaf offer a fascinating account of Kentucky's history and its many unique and scandalous characters." -- Page 4 of cover.
The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia
Author: Gerald L. Smith
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0813160669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.
Murder in Old Kentucky
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0253057493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kentucky—land of bluegrass, horse racing, bourbon, and . . . murder. In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp—a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren—and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes the story of a family terrorized by an arsonist who massacred eleven of their members and burned the property of even more, the tale of a husband and wife found shot in each other's arms with a life-sized photo of another man between them, and many more deaths that made headlines. Meticulously researched and written with McQueen's trademark humor, Murder in Old Kentucky will captivate any fan of true crime or Kentucky history.
Creepy Kentucky
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1467154164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kentucky Book of the Dead
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1614234388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This illustrated compendium by the author of Horror in the Heartland reveals macabre tales of death, hauntings and unexplained events in Kentucky’s past. Author Keven McQueen specializes in uncovering local legends, strange-but-true incidents, and outright hoaxes that newspapers of the past found fit to print. In his Kentucky Book of the Dead, McQueen resurrects creepy stories of life and death in the Bluegrass State, each presented with commentary as well as line drawing by illustrator Kyle McQueen. In these pages, readers will discover the Grim Reaper's creative side, meet the disgusting ghosts of Louisville, and find out more than they to know about old-fashioned embalming techniques. Kentucky Book of the Dead is by turns spine-tingling and entertaining, engrossing and just plain gross
Forgotten Tales of Indiana
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1625843259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author Keven McQueen recalls a time when skunk farms, which allegedly produced a cure for rheumatism, were speckled throughout the countryside and a miserable woman tied her husband to a fence post, coated him with salt and intended to let the cows "lick him to death." Meet the King of the Ghouls, an accomplished grave robber and notorious murderer, and a man so convinced he was an ox that he often joined neighborhood cattle for a bite of grass, and discover ghosts, monsters, giant skeletons and more in this collection of outlandish tales from the Hoosier State.
The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1614231605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dramatic story of a devastating natural disaster in nineteenth-century Kentucky. On March 27, 1890, a devastating storm moved over the Ohio River Valley, spawning dozens of deadly tornados. The most powerful of these twisters touched down in Louisville, carving a path of unprecedented destruction from Main Street to the end of town. In the aftermath, nearly eight hundred buildings in the city were destroyed, and over one hundred people perished. In all, the storm produced over twenty-five tornados that day, and it remains the twenty-fifth deadliest storm in US history. This book chronicles Louisville’s most violent natural disaster, with tales of harrowing rescues and rebuilding.
