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 FLOYD COUNTY & BIG SANDY VALLEY HISTORY

CDs on the villages in Germany where ancestors of the May family lived for six generations.
Please specify which CD you would like to purchase.
1. One that can be viewed on a PC.
    OR
2. One that can be viewed on a TV with a DVD that can read VCD format.

$7.00 plus
S&H $3.00
* KY sales tax $0.42

"May Genealogy: 1776-1956"
by Tress May Francis
-- over 500 pages transcribed to a CD --
by Samuel D. Hatcher

 $10.00 plus
S & H $3.00
* KY sales tax &0.60

"The Shoemaker's Children"
Eight Generations of the May Family: 1567-1813
by Fred T. May
Sold Out ... Available from the author

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"I Will Uphold The Flag:
The Life of Colonel Reuben May 1815-1902"
by Dale & Sharon Sternburg and Fred T. May

$30.00 plus
S & H $4.00
* KY sales tax $1.80

"Jack May's War"
by Dr. Robert Perry

$15.00 plus
S & H $2.50
 * KY sales tax $0.90

"The Oldest House in The Valley"
by Dr. Robert Perry

$5.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.30

"Kentucky's Last Frontier"
by Henry P. Scalf

 $34.50 plus
S& H $3.50
* KY sales tax $2.07

"Floyd County Sesquicentennial 1800-1950"
150 Years of Progress
by Henry P. Scalf

$35.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $2.10

"Floyd County Pictorial History"
Editor: Dr. Robert Perry    
           SOLD OUT

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"Floyd County 1992 Bicentennial History"
           LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE

$65.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $3.90

"Our Family Heritage, Some East Kentucky Roots" : Descendants of Caleb & Margaretta Patrick May
by Bruce David May & Nadine Carol Preece May

$25.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

 "The Hatfields"
by G. Elliot Hatfield      SOLD OUT

 Out of Print

 "Life Among The Hills and Mountains of Kentucky"
by William Roscoe Thomas        SOLD OUT

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"The Saga of Jenny Wiley, Dark Hills Westward"
by Harry M. Caudill

$22.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.32

"White Squaw, The True Story of Jenny Wiley"
by Arville Wheeler

$14.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

 "Jenny Wiley, Pioneer Mother and Borderland Heroine"
by Henry P. Scalf

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* KY sales tax $0.24

 "Fight for Middle Creek"
by Richard J. Reid
SOLD OUT

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"Bad John Wright, The Law of Pine Mountain"
by Phillip K. Epling

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* KY sales tax $0.78

"Bankmules, The Story of Van Lear, A Kentucky Coal Town"
by James E. Vaughn

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* KY sales tax $1.32

 KENTUCKY HISTORY & STORIES

"A New History of Kentucky"
by Lowell Harrison and James C. Klotter
   autographed by the authors

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* KY sales tax $2.10

"The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone"
by Michael A. Lofaro

$21.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.26

"Daniel Boone, An America Life"
by Michael A. Lofaro

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"Daniel Boone, Young Hunter and Tracker"
by Augusta Stevenson

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* KY sales tax $0.30

"Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories"
edited by Morris Allen Grubbs

$19.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.20

"A Jesse Stuart Reader"
Stories and Poems Selected and Introduced by Jesse Stuart

$15.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

"The New Harvest, Forgotten Stories of Kentucky's Jesse Stuart"    by Jesse Stuart

$24.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.44

 "Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky"
by William Lynwood Montell

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* KY sales tax $1.50

"Ancient Sunshine, The Story of Coal"
by James B. Goode

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* KY sales tax $0.60

"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
by John Fox, Jr.

$18.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.08

"Mountain Passage and Other Stories of Eastern Kentucky"
by Garry Barker

$15.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

"Kentucky Woman, The Life of Viebie Catron Cantrell"
by Mary Ellen Klatte

$12.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.72

 "Soup Beans and Cornbread"
by James Goble

 $20.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.20

Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis
by Holman Hamilton
New on the Shelves - Sep 2006

$12.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.75

Painted Mountain – An Early American Adventure
by Ken Henderson
New on the Shelves - May 2007

$24.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

Brothers of the Forest – An Early American Adventure
by Ken Henderson
New on the Shelves - May 2007

$24.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

Kentucky Moonshine
by David W. Maurer
New on the Shelves - Sep 2006

$16.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.96

THE CIVIL WAR

The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky
 by John David Preston ...... 2nd edition....Autographed
New on the Shelves - May 2008

$35.00 plus
S & H $3.00
* KY sales tax $2.10

The Legend & Legacy of Lee
by David Chaltas
New on the Shelves - Jan 2008

$24.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

Contested Borderland
The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
by Brian D. McKnight
New on the Shelves - Sep 2006

$40.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $2.40

"10th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.
May's- Trimble's-Diamond's 'Yankee Chasers' "
by John Britton Wells, III and James M. Prichard

$30.00 plus
S & H $4.00
* KY sales tax $1.80

"The Civil War in Kentucky"
by Lowell H. Harrison

$19.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.20

Basil Wilson Duke, CSA:
             The Right Man in the Right Place
by Gary Roberts Matthews
New on the shelves - NOV. 2005

$39.95 plus
 S & H $4.00
* KY sales tax $2.40

Kentucky's Civil War 1861-1865
Various authors: edited by Jerelene Rose
New on the shelves - SEPT. 2005

$27.95 plus
 S & H $3.00
* KY sales tax $1.78

 "Perryville- This Grand Havoc of Battle"
by Kenneth W. Noe

$35.00 plus
S & H $4.00
* KY sales tax $2.10

I Rode With Morgan
by Alexius Rex New on the shelves - SEPT. 2005

$28.99 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.80

On The Trail of General John Hunt Morgan's
Indiana-Ohio Raid: A Travel Pictorial
by Jonathan M. Jackson (Alexius Rex)
New on the shelves - SEPT. 2005

$14.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

"Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan"
by James A. Ramage

 $18.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.14

"John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders"
by Edison H. Thomas

 $20.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.20

"The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Slodier of the Confederacy"    by Bell Irvin Wiley

$28.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.14

"Mountain Rebels, East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870"   by W. Todd Groce

$16.90 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

 "Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade:
    The Journal of a Confederate Soldier"
Edited by: A. D. Kirwin

$22.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.32

 "Confederate Pensioners of Kentucky"
Pension Applications of the Veterans & Widows 1912-1946.
Abstracted by Stephan Douglas Lynn.
  Numbered & signed by the author.     SOLD OUT

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 "Glory at a Gallop, Tales of the Confederate Cavalry"
by William R. Brooksher & David K. Snider

$15.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.96

 "The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee"
Edited by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr.

 $5.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.36

 "The South Was Right"
by James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy

 $22.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.38

 "Cap'n Tom, Crisis of Faith"
by John Bridges

 $24.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

 "Flags of the Confederacy, An illustrated History"
by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr.

$16.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.02

"Jackson & Lee - Legends in Gray"
The Paintings of Mort Künstler
Text by James L. Robertson, Jr.

$34.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $2.10

"Gettysburg - The Paintings of Mort Künster"
Text by James M. McPherson

$24.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.50

"Sweetly Southern"
Delicious Desserts from the Sons of Confederate Veterans

$22.50 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.35

"Confederate Women"
Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn

$14.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

"The Confederate Spirit - Valor, Sacrifice, and Honor"
The paintings of Mort Künster.
Text by James I. Robertson, Jr.

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* KY sales tax $2.10

 OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST

"A True Man of God, A Biography of Father Ralph William Beiting, Founder of the Christian Appalachian Project"
by Anthony J. Salatino

 $22.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $1.32

"Into the Wilderness: The Lewis and Clark Expedition"
by James J. Holmberg

$5.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.36

"Pocahontas Young Peacemaker"
by Leslie Gourse

$4.99 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.30

"Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" by Robert Hendrickson

$14.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

"Cooking Healthy with Wild Game"
by Robert Rinker

$12.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.78

"Death in Dixie"
Editors: Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg

$9.95 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.60

"Dixie Ghosts"  Editors: Frank D. McSherry, Jr.;
              Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg

$12.99 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.78

"Appalachian Love Stories"
Editors: James M Gifford & Edwina Pendarvis

$15.00 plus
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* KY sales tax $0.90

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