Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Every time I attempted to start, my new horse would commence to kick

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.

Uncle made fun of me, so I took my bottle and hid behind the room door, and he still teased me, so I crawled under the bed and finished it!

This case is a one of a kind in the American judicial system … in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!

Family tradition says that Ganaway Russell paid for the property in 1867 with a fortune he made driving cattle to feed California gold miners.

[The Farm Security Administration] was one of the few places you could go where you felt that your pictures would be used and seen.