Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

I used to flesh them by hand

I started working at tanning when I was 15 years old and I’m 63 now. It’s hot. Like putting your nose right on the grindstone all the time.

Settlers moving into Ohio’s Miami Valley & the Virginia Military Tract were generally poorer, unable to buy land directly from the government.

Well folks, sit right back and let me tell you a little tale about how Hoopie the farmer and the Rooster named Red went at it one day.

Out the door came Old Betsy, sailing straight away. I leaped off the roof and landed right in the middle of her back! Away we went.

The North Fork cattlemen shot the Amis horse & took 20 head of cattle from him to compensate for the cattle that John Amis destroyed.

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