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Table of Contents

I. KENTUCKY

1.  Surrounding Fort Knox
2. Entering Through Pitts Point
3. What Was There Before
4. Muldraugh and Its Hill
5. The Geology
6. The Borden Delta
7. The Trouble With Trilobites
8. The Old L & N Turnpike
9. Tioga Falls and Bridges to the Past
10. U.S. Hwy 31W and Fort Knox
11. Surrounding West Point
12. Louisville and the “Kulmer Beach Reserve”
13. Surrounding Garnettsville and Grahamton
14. Otter Creek Park and Rock Haven
15. Surrounding Shepherdsville and Bullitt’s Lick
16. Bardstown Junction
17. Lebanon Junction
18. Surrounding Elizabethtown and Hardin County
19. Hometown Heroes of History

II. CIVIL WAR

20. The Civil War in Kentucky
21. Surrounding Sherman and Grant
22. William Tecumseh Sherman in Kentucky
23. Civil War Camp Nevin and Nolin Station
24. West Point, Sherman, and Fort Duffield
25. The Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
26. Morgan’s Raiders During the Invasion of Kentucky
27. Morgan’s Christmas Raid
28. After Perryville
29. Surrounding Morgan’s Great Raid
30. The Ones Left Behind, Lincoln’s “Little Sister”

III. SOUTHERN INDIANA

31. Brandenburg, New Amsterdam, Indian Creek, Squire Boone Caverns, Corydon, and the Historic Paoli Pike
32. West Point, Mauckport, Laconia, New Boston, Evans Landing, and Rosewood
33. The Harrison County Central Limestone Glades
34. The Hanging Karst Valley, John Shields, Buena Vista, and Klinstiver Spring Cave!
35. The “White Caps” Massacre
36. Binkley Cave and Indiana Caverns
37. Surrounding Wyandotte Cave
38. Harrison-Crawford State Forest, O’Bannon Woods, and Leavenworth
39. Marengo Cave, English, Tazwell, Yellow Birch Ravine, Hemlock Cliffs, Sulphur Springs, and Getting There!
40. Buffalo Roads, Mount Saint Francis, Georgetown, Crandall, O’Bannon Woods, and Rothrock’s Mill
41. Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany
42. The Ohio River and John Hale’s Silver Hills
43. Surrounding the Steamboat Cabin Theatre
44. The Ohio River Bridges

IV. KENTUCKY AGAIN

45. Radcliff, Vine Grove, and Big Spring
46. Rineyville, Cecilia, and Glendale
47. Sonora, Upton, and the Speleofest
48. Sinking Creek, the Big Bat Cave System, and Big Spring
49. Surrounding Meade County
50. The Other Abe and His Son Mordecai
51. Bathsheba, Abraham Lincoln’s Grandmother
52. Lucy, Abe’s Other Grandmother
53. Women’s Rights in Colonial America
54. Surrounding Hodgenville
55. The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
56. Lincoln’s “Stone House” and the Old Road to His Knob Creek Farm
57. Surrounding New Haven
58. Alexandria and New Haven
59. Bernheim Forest and Boston

V. THE BARDSTOWN CORYDON TURNAROUND

60. New Haven, Hodgenville, Rineyville, and Big Spring
61. Rosetta, Garfield, Hardinsburg, and Stephensport
62. Cloverport, Jeffreys Cliffs, and Hawesville
63. Squirrel Tail Hollow Road, Patesville, Victoria, The Tar Springs Resort, and Cloverport Again!

VI. SOUTHERN INDIANA AGAIN 

64. Navigation on the Ohio River
65. James Howard and the Howard Steamboat Museum
66. Surrounding Cannelton
67. Deep Wilderness in Indiana, Branchville, and Leopold
68. Into Oil Creek
69. Geologic Expressions
70. The “Indian” Wars
71. Dhan and Suzan and the Ice Age Mammals!
72. Ancient Native Americans
73. Tobinsport, Rome, Derby, Magnet, Buzzard Roost, Alton
74. Cape Sandy, Fredonia, Sulphur, Leavenworth, Corydon
75. Surrounding Corydon and Harrison County