Ghosts of the Bluegrass
by Emeritus Professor of Community Health James McCormick and Macy Wyatt
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so uncertain only a few years earlier, was assured. The end of the American Revolution curtailed British support for Indian raids, and thousands of settlers sought a better life in the "Eden of the West." They sw...
This compelling compendium presents a wide variety of amazing and bizarre creatures, from the Minnesota Iceman to the Beast of Boggy Creek to the White Bluffs Screamer. Draw back the curtain and marvel at the astounding assemblage of mysterious beasts within. You ll discover real-world fantasy monsters like manticores and dragons, the piercing cries of enormous eagles, and a collection of creepy crawlies. Featuring werewolves, sea monsters, massive amphibians, ape men, and more, A Menagerie of M...
Ghosts of America - California 2 (Ghosts of America Local, #19)
by Nina Lautner
Ghosts of America - Mid-Atlantic 2 (Ghosts of America Local, #30)
by Nina Lautner
In this first Ghost Detective book by A H Perkins, he travels the country collecting new ghost stories from eyewitnesses who claim to have seen a ghost or experienced a spirit.The book contains thirty-two eyewitness accounts of ghosts from Northamptonshire, Devon, Dorset, Lincolnshire, Essex, Yorkshire, South Africa, and Australia. All new tales of ghostly goings-on for the paranormal enthusiast.