Fiction That Will Take You There BULLITT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PATHFINDERS The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts FIC ROBE Books, Movies, and More on Your Favorite Subjects KentuckyKentucky Often called the best novel ever written on Ken- tucky frontier life, this epic describes the opening of the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains and Fact or Fiction? provides a generous amount of family drama.

The Cycle The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert 977.02 ECKE Frontier by Robert Schenkkan 812 SCHE Frontier This Pulitzer Prize–winning series of nine short A former selection of KET’s book club, The Fron- plays chronicles the history of three fictional fami- tiersmen is an extensively researched history of the lies beginning in 1775. period from 1770 to 1813. Although it is presented in narrative form, the book is structured as a dual biography of legendary explorer Simon Kenton and Kentucky Frontiersmen: The Adventures chief . For more information, you can link to of Henry Ware, Hunter and Border Fighter KET’s book club from the “Books, Movies & Music” page on by Joseph A. Altsheler FIC ALTS our website. KET provides numerous Web links to discover fur- Henry Ware’s family settles in Kain-tuck-ee, where ther historical background on people and events of the period. he grows to adulthood and becomes an expert out- doorsman and the savior of the new pioneer settle- ment.

Tree of Freedom Online Resources by Rebecca Caudill FIC CAUD The Venable family leaves Carolina to experience Kentucky Historical Society the promise and hardships of 1780 Kentucky. www.history.ky.gov

Kentucky Digital Library Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny http://athena.uky.edu/kyleidoscope/kyleidoscope.htm Wiley by Harry M. Caudill FIC CAUD The Filson Historical Society Based on Jenny Wiley’s personal account of her Want to know more about the capture by a small band of Indians, their journey www.filsonhistorical.org across the Kentucky wilderness, and her eventual early days of Kentucky? escape. Bullitt County History Museum www.bullittcountyhistory.org Janice Holt Giles is a noted Kentucky author known primarily for her historical novels set in the Kentucky Look inside to find all the facts— area or on the Western frontier. (She also wrote contem- porary fiction set in the Kentucky hills.) Key historical At the library you can learn more about the Kentucky fron- selections include: tier and other topics from thousands of resources. Or visit plus some great novels set in your The Kentuckians – David Cooper, a frontiersman who our website (www.bcplib.org) to access our databases and had hunted with , decides it is time to settle find useful internet links. favorite place and time! down only to discover that the woman he loves is the wife The library is free. You can find everything from fun books of his enemy. This is an account of the first settlers in for kids and adults to in-depth research materials. We can Kentucky and only the three central characters are fic- even access library collections around the country using our tional. Interlibrary Loan network. Hannah Fowler – Hannah and her father are part of a party led by , but after her father’s Is there a topic you’d like to learn more about? If death she decides to marry and must face the harsh reali- you have suggestions for future library Explore. Learn. Enjoy. ties of frontier life with her new husband. pathfinders, let us know!

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Settlement of “Kentuck” Reference & Genealogy Books Daniel Boone

The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narra- My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Inter- Pioneer Life in Kentucky 1785–1800 tive History of America’s First Far views with Nathan Boone by Daniel Drake R 976.9 DRAK edited by Neal O. Hammon B BOON West, 1750-1792 by Ted Franklin Belue 976.9 BELU Pioneers of Eastern Kentucky: Their Feuds A Companion for Owls : Being the and Settlements Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Meet the Drakes on the Kentucky by Bernice Calmes Caudill GEN 976.9 KENT Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, etc.

Frontier by Maurice Manning byJohn J. Loeper J 976.9 LOEP Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern 811.6 MANN Kentucky by William C. Kozee GEN 929.3 KENT Daniel Boone: An American Life The Wilderness Road, 1775 Pioneer Settlers and Related Families at the by Michael A. Lofaro by Laura Purdie Salas J 973.2 SALA Mouth of Salt River 976.9 LOFA by Richard A. Briggs GEN 929.3 HARD

Boonesborough: Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, Indian Experiences, Transylvania Daniel Boone and the Exploration of Kentucky’s Frontier Highway: Days, and Revolutionary Annals the Frontier Historical Landscapes Along by George Washington Ranck GEN 976.9 RANC by Richard F. Kozar Maysville Road J 976.9 KOZA by Karl B. Raitz 976.9 RAIT Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Develop- The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the ment of the Virginia Colony; Its Expansion Boone: A Biography Promised Land Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier by Robert Morgan edited by Craig Thompson Friend 976.9 BUZZ Beyond the Alleghanies. . . CD BOOK B BOON by W. H. Perrin, et.al. GEN 976.9 KENT v. 1–6 The Frontier Mind: A Cultural Analysis of the Kentucky Frontiersman Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records: Ab- by Arthur Keister Moore 917.69 MOOR Kentucky's Boone: The Pioneer stracts of Early Wills, Deeds, and Marriages from Court Houses and Records of Old Bibles, Spirit Simon Kenton, Kentucky Scout by K. Melissa Burton by Thomas D. Clark 976.9 CLAR Churches, Grave Yards, and Cemeteries cop- JB BOON ied by American War Mothers. . . Westward Into Kentucky: The Narrative of compiled by Mrs. Harry Kennett McAdams Daniel Trabue GEN 929.3 KENT edited by Chester Raymond Young 976.903 TRAB The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, For- Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants Kentuckians Before Boone merly a Hunter: Containing a Narrative of the compiled by Ila Earle Fowler GEN 929.3 KENT by A. Gwynn Henderson 976.9 HEND Wars of Kentucky, with the Discovery, Pur-

The Personnel of George Rogers Clark’s Fort chase, and Settlement of Kentucky Frontier Kentucky by John Filson 976.902 FILS by Otis K. Rice 976.902 RICE Jefferson and the Civilian Community of

Clarksville [Kentucky] 1780–1781 Kentucke and the Adventures of Col. Daniel The Voice of the Frontier: John Bradford’s edited by Kenneth Charles Carstens Boone by John Filson R 976.9 FILS Notes on Kentucky GEN 929.3 KENT edited by Thomas D. Clark 976.9 BRAD