Daniel Boone contributed a great deal to Kentucky’s early development while becoming an American hero more than 200 years ago. He became a very prominent American at a...

The trapdoor of the scaffold wasn’t working properly and Sheriff Wilburn Killen of Wise County, Virginia, beat on it for several minutes as Eave Hopson waited on the...

Jackson, Kentucky, the county seat of ‘bloody Breathitt County’ as it came to be known, was a busy place on June 28, 1895. There was a clamor of horse and wagons, families...

Jackson, Kentucky, the county seat of ‘bloody Breathitt County’ as it came to be known, was a busy place on June 28, 1895. There was a clamor of horse and wagons, families...

The Breathitt County, Kentucky, jury returned with a quick verdict of guilty following the trial of Bad Tom Smith in 1895. He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until...

The Breathitt County, Kentucky, jury returned with a quick verdict of guilty following the trial of Bad Tom Smith in 1895. He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until...

Author James Lane Allen visited Cumberland Gap in the mid-1880s and slept beneath the shadow of the Pinnacle. “It was late afternoon when our tired horses began the long,...

Cumberland Gap is one of the most identifiable names and locations in the world. Westward migration and expansion was stymied for several centuries by the extensive...