Stirpes, Volume 6, Number 4, December 1966. Page: 141
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BOOK REVIEWS 141
Kentucky's Last Frontier. By Henry P. Scalf, Box 421,
Prestonburg, Kentucky. Prestonburg: Privately printed, 1966.
551 pp. $10.00 postpaid.
Henry P. Scalf edits a fine genealogical publication on
East Kentucky and he has written many articles and books on his
beloved Kentucky. As Thomas D. Clark, University of Kentucky,
says in the foreword, "Mr. Scalf has written of every phase of
life in eastern Kentucky. He writes of a land which he loves
and understands.... "
Of particular interest to genealogists is the chapter on
"Eastern Kentucky Land Titles," which explains a tangled-mess
that many genealogists have been caught in in their search for
understanding of these land titles.
Mr. Scalf's style is that of a journalist and village storekeeper
who knows more than he can tell aloud about the people
he is writing about. It is so good to find a true-lover of
people writing about people and not treating them objectively as
if they were a lot of unimportant names cluttering up a local
history. You feel like you have been to Kentuck and shared a
chew of old Red Mule with him over a pot-bellied stove while he
told you about his land and his people and what fine folk they
are, when you've read Henry Scalf's Kentucks Last Frontier!
Early Das in Callahan County. By Brutus Clay Chrisman.
Abilene, Texas: Abilene Printing & Stationery Co., 1966. 356 pp.
Brutus Clay Chrisman, Box 806, Baird, Texas, teacher and
local historian, has done well this county history of Callahan
County, Texas. He has written of "Some Early Pioneers," in
Chapter Two, such as Wild Wood Foster, Claiborn Walker Merchant,
the Day and Driskill families, Thomas Henry Floyd, James Franklin
Dyer, and others.
Rupert N. Richardson of Hardin Simmons University in his
review of this fine book in the Abilene Reporter-News, November
13, 1966, says, "County history is difficult to write. The facts
must be gleaned from myriads of sources--old newspapers, public
records, letters and diaries, and personal interviews. The author
must be diligent enough to search out the facts, patient enough to
record them, skilled enough to shape them into a unified, coherent
account, and talented enough to write the story interestingly....
B. C. Chrisman meets these requirements well."
Genealogists will be interested also in the many military
rosters included in the book as well as many other lists that
name names and give dates and places.
Nelson County, Kentucky, Marriage Bonds, 1785-1832. Compiled
by Mary Harrel Stancliff, 8900 Chimney Rock, Apt. 18, Houston,
Texas. Volume I, A-J, published in 1962, 207 pp. Index. Volume
II, K-Z, published in 1963, 210 pp. Index. Privately printed.
Mary Stancliff is a particular favorite author around TSGS
members as one newspaper column she wrote last year reviewing
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