Louisville-based writer Mimi O’Malley recounts more than 25 short, vivid episodes from Kentucky’s past, from explorer Thomas Walker’s journey through the Cumberland Gap and Jenny Wiley’s escape from Shawnee and Cherokee captors to 18th-century mastodon-fossil discoveries.
The collection also covers a 20th-century horse-racing scandal and the invention of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat, telling the story of a proudly self-reliant state through its stranger, lesser-known moments.
Published 2011
168 pages
$15.32