Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Kentucky

Some cows never learn

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.

John Amis was on the south side of the Kentucky River. William Strong was on the North Fork. Feud trouble was about to brew between them.

Excerpt from “The story of Hazard, Ky. – The pearl of the mountains,’ by Louis Pilcher, Citizens Print. Co., 1913

By the end of his career, John Paul Riddle had received the British Empire award & been inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame.

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