Author: Alex. C. Finley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781494715977
Category : Logan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Republication of books 1-5 of the first volume of The history of Russellville and Logan County, Ky.
Author: Mark Griffin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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As one of Kentucky's oldest counties, Logan County has a colorful history. Residents found religion at the Red River Meeting House during the Second Great Awakening. However, the land once known as Rogue's Harbor has been wrought with lawlessness. Visitors to the county today can tour the bank in the county seat of Russellville where the infamous Jesse James started his robbing spree in 1868. Tourists and residents alike are regaled with stories of a dueling Andrew Jackson and countless corrupt elections. Four men went on to become governors, while a fifth attempt fell short despite an infamous campaign. All of these things are documented in Images of America: Logan County along with the less controversial events in history: the everyday farmers who raised their cash crop of tobacco to contribute to a growing community and the establishment of the most southwestern of the Shaker communities at South Union.
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Publisher: Turner
ISBN: 9781563113048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Author: Becky Kelley
Publisher: Acclaim Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781948901451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In December 1965, Edgar Harper and his daughter, Mrs. Ella Givens, were kidnapped from the Harper home in Logan County, Kentucky -- their bodies found the following March close to the abandoned Martin Cemetery. In More Than Blood Reveals, the authors explore this murder through the eyes of the fictional Clack sisters, using newspaper reports, FBI case files and interviews to weave a tale of murder and intrigue based on real life events. More Than Blood Reveals presents all the evidence to this murder mystery -- still unsolved after five decades -- and the authors conclude with their thoughts about what really happened on that cold December night.
Author: Roger Futrell
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Logan County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Author: Lewis Collins
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Author: William Elsey Connelley
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Author: F. Keith Davis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738582481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Forged through time by varied cultures and numerous crises, Logan County provides an intriguing landscape that has nurtured equally intriguing people. In 1774, after the death of their beloved Chief Cornstalk, a tribe of Shawnee Indians led by his daughter, Princess Aracoma, settled into the area. From meager beginnings, the region began to grow, and in 1824, Logan County was formed and named in honor of Chief Logan, head of the Mingo tribe. By the late 1870s, during the height of the timber and coal industries, it was known as home to the Hatfields of the infamous feud. In 1921, Logan became the backdrop of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed labor confrontation in United States history. Logan County has had more than its share of coal mine disasters, labor uprisings, flash flood tragedies, and shady political shenanigans, but it has always been a naturally beautiful and, for the most part, peaceful place to live and raise a family. It has a fascinating past that is well worth revisiting.
Author: George C. Wright
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807120731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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"Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern History In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after the war. In the first study of its kind to target the racial patterns of a specific state, Wright demonstrates that despite Kentucky's proximity to the North, its black population was subjected to racial oppression every bit as severe and prolonged as that found farther south. His examination of the causes and extent of racial violence, and of the steps taken by blacks and concerned whites to end the brutality, has implications for race relations throughout the United States.
