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      Tales from Tennessee Lawyers

      William Lynwood Montell

      Veteran oral historian and folklorist William Lynwood Montell has collected tales from dozens of lawyers and judges from throughout the Volunteer State, ranging from stories of a custody battle over…

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      Tales of Kentucky Ghosts

      William Lynwood Montell

      A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker’s When Winter Come: The Ascension of York is a dramatic reimagining of Lewis and Clark’s legendary exploration of the American…

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      William Lynwood Montell

      As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between…

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      Ghosts across Kentucky

      William Lynwood Montell

      With a Foreword by Jeffry D. Wert During the Civil War, Confederate John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby’s Rangers, in many bold and…

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      Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky

      William Lynwood Montell

      Montell tells the story of a stormy night, shortly before Henry Clay’s death, when the ghost of the statesman’s old friend Daniel Boone calls upon him, and then recounts the…

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      Tales from Tennessee Lawyers

      William Lynwood Montell

      Veteran oral historian and folklorist William Lynwood Montell has brought together a fascinating collection of tales gathered from lawyers and judges throughout the Volunteer State.

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      Singing The Glory Down: Amateur Gospel Music in South Central Kentucky, 1900-1990

      William Lynwood Montell

      In Singing the Glory Down, William Lynwood Montell contributes to a fuller understanding of twentieth-century American culture by examining the complex relationships between gospel music and the culture of the…

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      Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South

      William Lynwood Montell

      The State Line Country of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. This close examination of homicide in the State Line Country, which views…

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      Kentucky Ghosts

      William Lynwood Montell

      With an Afterword by Joseph T. Glatthaar The View from the Ground brings together the perspectives of Civil War soldiers on all aspects of the conflict, revealing as much about…

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      Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes

      William Lynwood Montell

      In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state.

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      Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers

      William Lynwood Montell

      In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, sports offer a versatile arena for discussion of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social facets. All-Stars and…

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      Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs

      William Lynwood Montell

      Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Tales from…

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      Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky

      William Lynwood Montell

      Montell tells the story of a stormy night, shortly before Henry Clay’s death, when the ghost of the statesman’s old friend Daniel Boone calls upon him, and then recounts the…

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      Don’T Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy Upper Cumberland

      William Lynwood Montell

      Offers a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents…

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      Saga Coe Ridge: Study Oral History

      William Lynwood Montell

      Few black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during the ninety years of…

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      Tales from Kentucky Nurses

      William Lynwood Montell

      Covering medical practice in the state from the early twentieth century through contemporary times, the episodes related in Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveal the significance of the nursing profession to…

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      Upper Cumberland Country

      William Lynwood Montell

      Explores the spectrum of folklore from yesterday and today - from pioneer life and early folk architecture to teens cruising and women deer hunters. In a region filled with relics…

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      Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers

      William Lynwood Montell

      In Tales from Kentucky One-Room School Teachers, William Lynwood Montell reclaims an important part of Kentucky’s social, cultural, and educational heritage, assembling a fun and fascinating collection of schoolroom stories…

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      Tales from Kentucky Doctors

      William Lynwood Montell

      In Tales from Kentucky Doctors, noted oral historian William Lynwood Montell has assembled a fascinating collection of memoirs from Kentucky’s medical providers.

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      Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes

      William Lynwood Montell

      In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state.

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      Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

      William Lynwood Montell

      Tales from Kentucky Lawyers recounts the most insightful, entertaining, and occasionally heartbreaking stories ever told by and about Kentucky lawyers and their clients, covering the spectrum from arson to homicide…

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      Tales from Kentucky Nurses

      William Lynwood Montell

      The episodes related in Tales from Kentucky Nurses reveal the significance of the nursing profession to the Bluegrass state’s local life and culture.

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      Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs

      William Lynwood Montell

      Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs covers elections, criminal behavior, and sheriff’s mistakes in a lighthearted and often humorous manner.

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      Tales of Kentucky Ghosts

      William Lynwood Montell

      Tales of Kentucky Ghosts brings together a variety of terrifying narratives that not only entertain and frighten but also serve as a unique record of Kentucky’s rich heritage of storytelling

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      Upper Cumberland Country

      William Lynwood Montell

      Explores the spectrum of folklore from yesterday and today - from pioneer life and early folk architecture to teens cruising and women deer hunters. In a region filled with relics…

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      Ghosts Along Cumberland: Deathlore Kentucky Foothills

      William Lynwood Montell

      A fascinating collection of ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, death beliefs and death sayings that remain as a vestige of the part in south central Kentucky’s Pennyrile region.

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      Kentucky Folk Architecture

      William Lynwood Montell,Michael L. Morse

      A concise and amply illustrated introduction to Kentucky folk structures–log cabins, houses, cribs, and barns–that should be treasured as irreplaceable expressions of the cultural values of the Commonwealth’s past.

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      Ghosts of the Bluegrass

      James McCormick,Macy Wyatt

      In Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts past and present.

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