Three Rivers: A Kentucky Folk History

By Dan Lee

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: 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 and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476691908
• ISBN13: 9781476691909
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up