The Big Sandy Valley, A Regional History Prior to the Year 1850; By Willard Rouse Jillson; 183 pp.; Paperback; Published: 1923; Reprinted: 2008; ISBN: 9780806379814; Item # CF3008D

This excellent regional history is crammed with lists of early settlers, heads of families, and Revolutionary pensioners. It deals with the region (mostly in Eastern Kentucky) known as the Big Sandy Valley, which today encompasses all or part of sixteen counties in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.