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Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (Sc 3316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cowan, Gilbert, 1903-1969 (Sc 3316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3316. Letters, 28 July and 18 November 1931, of Gilbert Cowan, written to his brother Finley Cowan in Cannons Mill, Clinton County, Kentucky, while Gilbert was an inmate at the Kentucky State Reformatory in Frankfort, Kentucky. He asks Finley to help arrange a recommendation for him to the superintendent of the prison school, and doubts that he, unlike other inmates, will be able to apply for a reduced sentence. He also wishes he could attend church with Finley in order to “get me a gal.” The institutional letterhead includes rules governing inmate letter-writing …
Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Martin, Jerry W. (Sc 2871), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2871. “A Dark and Bloody Ground: A Synopsis of the Lives of Micajah and Wiley Harpe,” by Dr. Jerry W. Martin. The illustrated paper, the basis for a presentation to the E.Q.B. Club of Bowling Green, Kentucky, recounts the lives of Kentucky outlaws Micajah and Wiley Harpe.
Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.
Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Boaz, Peggy Bradley, B. 1951 (Sc 979), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 979. Thesis titled, “The Oral Folk History Surrounding the Life of William Bernard ‘Big Six’ Henderson,” written by Peggy Bradley Boaz for Western Kentucky University’s Folk Studies Program, 1976. Also associated newspaper clippings, 1978, 1987 (2).
Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ford, Bess (Sc 2664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2664. Paper titled "Outlaws of Kentucky" by Bess Ford which examines individual outlaws from Kentucky history.
Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cornette, Elmer (Sc 491), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 491. Typed copy of biographical sketches of Albert and Charles Wing of Greenville, Kentucky, written by Elmer Cornette, and a letter to Elizabeth Coombs of the Kentucky Library.
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written …
Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky State Penitentiary - Deeds, 1884 (Sc 1586), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1586. Copies of fifteen deeds for land in Lyon County, Kentucky near Eddyville on which the Kentucky State Penitentiary was built.