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From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <>
Subject: Fw: [TNROOTS] King's Mountain - Overmountain Men references
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:21:55 -0400


Perhaps this was not forwarded to the list. Since many of the Catawaba
folks took part in this battle this might be of interest to some.

Linda

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> From: Ken Yarberry <>
> To:
> Subject: [TNROOTS] King's Mountain - Overmountain Men references
> Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 11:04 PM
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> Hello everyone -
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> I received several good book references for Kings Mountain and the
> Overmountain Men. I want to thank all of you who sent me this
information.
> Here is a list for anyone else interested in the Battle of King's
Mountain
> or in the NC (TN) "Overmountain Men" that helped in this battle:
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> Alderman, Pat. "The Overmountain Men." The Overmountain Press, Johnson
> City, TN, original 1970, reprint w\index 1986.
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> Alderman, Pat. "One Heroic Hour at King's Mountain" The Overmountain
Press,
> Johnson City, TN. Many people have this book.
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> Bennet, Edward Earl, et.al. Calendar of the Tennessee and King=92 Mount=
ain
> papers of the Draper collection of manuscripts. Draper collection.
> Tennessee and kings Mountain papers. State Historical Society of
Wisconsin,
> Calendar series; v.3, Cook & McDowell Publications, Hartford, KY, 1979
> Call Z1337.S7 1979 F436 LCCN 83144356 Dewey 016.9768
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> Draper, Lyman Copeland. "The Draper collection of manuscripts." State
> Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison WI, 1922
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> Moss, B. G.. "The Patriots at Kings Mountain." Scotia-Hibernia Press,
> Blacksburg, SC 29702, 1990; second printing 1991. LCCN 90-060759 ISB=
N
> 0-9626172-0-2
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> Powell, William S. "North Carolina Through Four Centuries" The
University
> of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
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> White, Katherine Keogh. "The King's Mountain Men - The Story of the
Battle,
> With Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part." Genealogical
> Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore MD, 1985
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> Finally the Draper Manuscripts, which apparently are the most extensive
> collection of early colonial history in NC, SC, TN, VA, and KY. These
were
> done by Lyman Draper of Wisconsin and are on microfiche in most major
> libraries. Here is a URL is find a close library:
> http://library.usask.ca/hywebcat/
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> I hope this proves useful. I don't have any of these books but will be
> looking for them on my next trip to the VA state library.
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> Ken Yarberry
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> Email: OR
> Web: http://members.aol.com/KYarberry/bgambill.html
> WFT Pedigree #5907 Submitter
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> Smith (1840 MO & KS) / Snodderly / *CARTER /
> Jonsson, Lindgen & Svenson (Sweden) -
> Johnson & Swanson (USA)
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