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ESCAPE TO KENTUCKY

Author : Charles & Linda Neuf
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359276296
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book ESCAPE TO KENTUCKY written by Charles & Linda Neuf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1990 and Charlie & Linda are respected Private Detectives living in Springfield Illinois, working cases for well known Attorneys throughout the Midwestern states. Because of a case Charlie was working, a contract to kill them was made by the wife of a client. Now Charlie & Linda must leave their home area for protection and re-establish their business, They will move to a small town in Kentucky. There their mission in life changes to one of being messengers of encouragement to those they come into contact with. This move will only confirm the many beliefs of Charlie & Linda about a Creator, the role of the Universe and Laws of Nature working in their lives. They continue to work investigations, but their purpose in life has changed. Charlie a 32nd degree Mason, member of the Scottish rite, a Gideon, and member of many national Investigation groups keeps both he and Linda active in outside actives and the business world.

Albanian Escape

Author : Agnes Mangerich
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813127424
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Albanian Escape written by Agnes Mangerich and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines. A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania, leaving the nurses, their team of medics, and the flight crew stranded in Nazi-occupied territory. What followed was a dangerous nine-week game of hide-and-seek with the enemy, a situation President Roosevelt monitored daily. Albanian partisans aided the stranded Americans in the search for a British Intelligence Mission, and the group began a long and hazardous journey to the Adriatic coast. During the following weeks, they crossed Albania's second highest mountain in a blizzard, were strafed by German planes, managed to flee a town moments before it was bombed, and watched helplessly as an attempt to airlift them out was foiled by Nazi forces. Albanian Escape is the suspense-filled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II. The nurses and flight crew endured frigid weather, survived on little food, and literally wore out their shoes trekking across the rugged countryside. Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindness of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans.

Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland

Author : J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604223
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland written by J. Blaine Hudson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.

The Kentucky Anthology

Author : Wade Hall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128994
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky Anthology written by Wade Hall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the official establishment of the Commonwealth, intrepid pioneers ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains into an expansive, alluring wilderness that they began to call Kentucky. After blazing trails, clearing plots, and surviving innumerable challenges, a few adventurers found time to pen celebratory tributes to their new homeland. In the two centuries that followed, many of the world’s finest writers, both native Kentuckians and visitors, have paid homage to the Bluegrass State with the written word. In The Kentucky Anthology, acclaimed author and literary historian Wade Hall has assembled an unprecedented and comprehensive compilation of writings pertaining to Kentucky and its land, people, and culture. Hall’s introductions to each author frame both popular and lesser-known selections in a historical context. He examines the major cultural and political developments in the history of the Commonwealth, finding both parallels and marked distinctions between Kentucky and the rest of the United States. While honoring the heritage of Kentucky in all its glory, Hall does not blithely turn away from the state’s most troubling episodes and institutions such as racism, slavery, and war. Hall also builds the argument, bolstered by the strength and significance of the collected writings, that Kentucky’s best writers compare favorably with the finest in the world. Many of the authors presented here remain universally renowned and beloved, while others have faded into the tides of time, waiting for rediscovery. Together, they guide the reader on a literary tour of Kentucky, from the mines to the rivers and from the deepest hollows to the highest peaks. The Kentucky Anthology traces the interests and aspirations, the achievements and failures and the comedies and tragedies that have filled the lives of generations of Kentuckians. These diaries, letters, speeches, essays, poems, and stories bring history brilliantly to life. Jesse Stuart once wrote, “If these United States can be called a body, Kentucky can be called its heart.” The Kentucky Anthology captures the rhythm and spirit of that heart in the words of its most remarkable chroniclers.

Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky

Author : Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681686
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky written by Antonio S. Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.

Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky

Author : C. L. Innes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138053
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky written by C. L. Innes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try to escape. He joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Long forgotten and never before published in the United States, Fedric's narratives, collected here for the first time, are certain to take their rightful place alongside the most recognizable accounts in the canon of slave memoirs.

Battle at Alcatraz

Author : Ernest B. Lageson
Publisher : Addicus Books
ISBN 13 : 1886039372
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Battle at Alcatraz written by Ernest B. Lageson and published by Addicus Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ernest Lageson Sr. was one of the guards shot. His son, Ernest Jr., a teenager at the time, agonized along with other hostage families waiting to hear if loved ones were alive. Now Ernest Lageson Jr. delivers an insider's account of both the notorious riot and life inside the most infamous prison in American history."--BOOK JACKET.

The Kentucky Statutes

Author : Kentucky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky Statutes written by Kentucky and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia

Author : Gerald L. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813160677
Total Pages : 1467 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia written by Gerald L. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 1467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Escape from Libby Prison

Author : James Gindlesperger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Libby Prison written by James Gindlesperger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the escape of Union prisoners of war from a Confederate military prison describing the horrific conditions, torture, and despair experienced by the Union soldiers.

A Digest of the Decisions of All the Courts of Kentucky Reported in the Kentucky Reports, the Southwestern Reporter, and Kentucky Law Reporter to July, 1904 ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
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Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of All the Courts of Kentucky Reported in the Kentucky Reports, the Southwestern Reporter, and Kentucky Law Reporter to July, 1904 ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies

Author : Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies written by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The citizens of Kentucky, a state already known as the Dark and Bloody Ground, did much to substantiate the state's reputation, judging from accounts of the region's violent feuds reported in the nation's newspapers of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The New York Times of July 26, 1885 stated, "The savages who inhabit this region are not manly enough to fight fairly, face to face. They lie in wait and shoot their enemies in the back ... One can hardly believe that any part of the United States is cursed with people so lawless and degraded." This book details some of the feuds that led to Kentucky's dubious reputation.

Crossed

Author : Ally Condie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142421715
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Crossed written by Ally Condie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated second book in the New York Times bestselling Matched trilogy! Perfect for fans of 1984, Brave New World, Black Mirror, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped into the majestic, but treacherous, canyons. On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different life . . . and the enthralling promise of rebellion. But even as Cassia sacrifices everything to reunite with Ky, ingenious surprises from Xander may change the game. On the edge of Society, nothing is as expected, and crosses and double crosses make Cassia's path more twisted than ever. Look for the epic series finale, REACHED!

The Liberty Line

Author : Larry Gara
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081314356X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Liberty Line written by Larry Gara and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.

Collins Historical Sketches of Kentucky

Author : Lewis Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Collins Historical Sketches of Kentucky written by Lewis Collins and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Digest of Railway Decisions

Author : Stewart Rapalje
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of Railway Decisions written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914

Author : P. Readman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137320583
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 written by P. Readman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.