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"Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic of them: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive, graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers"--
Part One The Rolling Fork Introduction -- The Struggle Begins -- Trailblazers -- Whiskey and Salt -- The Catholics Arrive -- The Struggles of Thomas Lincoln -- Steamboats and Railroads -- Thunder in the Valley -- Struggling Just to Live -- Too Dry, Then Too Wet -- The Rolling Fork Today -- Part Two -- The Nolin River Introduction -- The First People -- The River Gets a New Name -- Devil on the Loose -- Two Presidents, Two Fathers -- The Remarkable Stephen -- Blue and Gray on the Nolin -- The Prosperous Years -- Progress -- Hard Times -- The Nolin Today -- Part Three -- Rough River Introduction -- The Legend of Spanish Fort -- Settlers and Speculators -- Murder at Pine Knob -- Falls of Rough -- The Price of War -- Confederates -- Sinews of Steel -- Dying Time -- That High, Lonesome Sound -- Rough River Today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.