Tales, old and new

This is a collection of stories I've found over the years. Although you may be familiar with some of them, you might find some new. For those who don't know these stories, I hope you find them interesting. If you chose to read them online you'll need a PDF reader. The latest version of Adobe's Acrobat reader is free, just click on their icon below to download it and then return here.

If you want to save them for posperity you can put them on a CD, Iomega floppy, etc., and Kinkos can print them for you. Each of the links is written such that you can just close the story after reading to return here.


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Links to the Tales are:

  1. "Tales of the Oregon Trail" by Arabella Fulton; 213 pages. (PDF; 700K)
    >>The true story of a young girl's experiences on "the trail". Contributed by Dale DIBBLE.

  2. "KY Through Thick and Thin" by Shelby ELAM, 197 pages. (PDF; 4.7M)
    >>Contributed by Winston Gene NICKELL

  3. "Land Between the Lakes-a Lost Culture"(PDF)
    >>Personal experience of Dr. David Louis Nickell

  4. Genealogy of Denny Trimble NICKELL. ca 1972. (PDF)

  5. "Kels Nickell & Tom Horn" saga, by Denny Trimble NICKELL.

  6. The Nickell/Tolliver Fracus, from "Smoke In The Woods, Vol 2" by Fred Brown.

  7. "Who Killed Bruce Nickell" of Seattle, Washington? [aka. The Excedrin poisoning case of 1986.]

  8. "Tale of Two Panthers". From Joe Nickell's "chart".

  9. A tale of the HARPER/NICKELS Feud of Elliott Co., KY

  10. Bio of George LaVerne "Slim" Nickell of Washington state.

  11. Remembrances of John F. CRAIG (1769-1857). [With short anecdote on Thomas NICKELL (1740-1809).]

  12. Pension Application of Isaac NICKELL (1751-1839).

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