Three Rivers

<p> Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork the Nolin and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide sunny meadows to dark rock-bound hollows. </p><p> Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys including pioneers frontier preachers a future president cave explorers Confederate and Union soldiers desperate killers hardscrabble farmers and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers. </p>