LAST UPDATED Oct. 22, 2017 Go to Main Page | What's New BOOK SHELVES Big Sandy | Kentucky History | Civil War | Others More books on Eastern Kentucky Books may be ordered from: Samuel May House, Inc. 220 E. Porter St. Prestonsburg, KY 41653 * No KY Sales tax on books mailed to addresses outside of Kentucky Profits from these sales go to the restoration and operation of the Samuel May House. Click here to ask any questions about the books Click on underlined titles for more information  FLOYD COUNTY & BIG SANDY VALLEY HISTORY CDs on the villages in Germany where ancestors of the May family lived for six generations. Please specify which CD you would like to purchase. 1. One that can be viewed on a PC.     OR 2. One that can be viewed on a TV with a DVD that can read VCD format. $10.00 plus S&H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.78 "May Genealogy: 1776-1956" by Tress May Francis -- over 500 pages transcribed to a CD by Samuel D. Hatcher $10.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.78 "The Shoemaker's Children" Eight Generations of the May Family: 1567-1813 by Fred T. May  Sold Out Free: 102MB PDF file "I Will Uphold The Flag: The Life of Colonel Reuben May 1815-1902" by Dale & Sharon Sternburg and Fred T. May $30.00 plus S & H $5.00 * KY sales tax $2.10 "Jack May's War" by Dr. Robert Perry $15.00 plus S & H $3.00  * KY sales tax $1.08 "The Oldest House in The Valley" by Dr. Robert Perry $5.00 plus S & H $2.00 * KY sales tax $0.48 "Kentucky's Last Frontier" by Henry P. Scalf Order from Overmountain Press $34.50 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.31   "Floyd County Sesquicentennial 1800-1950" 150 Years of Progress by Henry P. Scalf $35.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.34 Limited number available "Floyd County Pictorial History" Editor: Dr. Robert Perry      Out of stock "Floyd County 1992 Bicentennial History" Limited number available $65.00 plus S & H $6.00 * KY sales tax $4.26 "Our Family Heritage, Some East Kentucky Roots" : Descendants of Caleb & Margaretta Patrick May by Bruce David May & Nadine Carol Preece May $25.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74  "The Hatfields by G. Elliot Hatfield   2012 reprint now available    $35.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.34  "Life Among The Hills and Mountains of Kentucky" by William Roscoe Thomas         Out of stock "The Saga of Jenny Wiley, Dark Hills Westward" by Harry M. Caudill $23.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.62 "Bad John Wright, The Law of Pine Mountain" by Phillip K. Epling Out of stock "Bankmules, The Story of Van Lear, A Kentucky Coal Town" by James E. Vaughn $22.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.56 Deadwood in My Blood Boone May and Gale Hill: Vol. 1 by Patrica A. Campbell $12.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.02 Deadwood in My Blood Boone May and Gale Hill: Vol. 2 by Patrica A. Campbell $24.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 Floyd County, Kentucky Veterans Discharge Index Compiled by James (Jim) Spencer $15.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.14  KENTUCKY HISTORY & STORIES "A New History of Kentucky" by Lowell Harrison and James C. Klotter Autographed by the authors $35.00 plus S & H $7.00 * KY sales tax $2.52 The Founding of Harman's Station and the Wiley Captivity. by William Elsey Connelley Four additional chapters by Edward Hazlett 2013 reprint $28.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.92 "The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone" by Michael A. Lofaro $21.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $1.44 "Daniel Boone, Young Hunter and Tracker" by Augusta Stevenson $5.00 plus S & H $2.00 * KY sales tax $0.42 "Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories" edited by Morris Allen Grubbs $19.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.44 "A Jesse Stuart Reader" Stories and Poems selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart $15.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.14 "The New Harvest, Forgotten Stories of Kentucky's Jesse Stuart"     by Jesse Stuart $24.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.68 "Ancient Sunshine, The Story of Coal" by James B. Goode $10.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.78 "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" by John Fox, Jr. $20.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.44 "Mountain Passage and Other Stories of Eastern Kentucky" by Garry Barker $15.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $1.08 "Kentucky Woman, The Life of Viebie Catron Cantrell" by Mary Ellen Klatte $12.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.90  "Soup Beans and Cornbread" by Jimmy Goble  $20.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.44 Painted Mountain – An Early American Adventure by Ken Martin $24.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 Brothers of the Forest – An Early American Adventure by Ken Henderson $24.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 Kentucky Moonshine by David W. Maurer $16.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.20 Kentucky Frontiersman by Joseph A. Altsheler (Novel) $16.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.44 Kentucky Stories by Joseph A. Altsheler (Novel) $20.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.66 Miracle on Caney Creek by Joseph A. Altsheler (Novel) $5.00 plus S & H $2.50 * KY sales tax $0.45 The War Between The States The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky  by John David Preston 2nd edition. $38.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.52 "10th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A. May's- Trimble's-Diamond's 'Yankee Chasers' " by John Britton Wells, III and James M. Prichard $30.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.82 The Most Brilliant Little Victory Nelson's Eastern Kentucky Campaign of 1861 by Marlitta H. Perkins $25.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 Marauder: The Life and Times of Nathaniel McClure Menefee by Randall Osborne $34.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.28 The Legend & Legacy of Lee by David Chaltas $25.00 S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 The Civil War in Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison $20.00 S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $1.38 Contested Borderland The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia by Brian D. McKnight $40.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $2.64 Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place by Gary Roberts Matthews $39.95 plus  S & H $4.50 * KY sales tax $2.67 Glory at a Gallop, Tales of Confederate Cavalry by William R.Brooksher & David K. Snider $16.00 plus  S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.20 Cap'n Tom, Crisis of Faith by John Bridges $25.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74  "Flags of the Confederacy, An illustrated History" by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr. $17.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.26 "The Confederate Spirit - Valor, Sacrifice, and Honor" The paintings of Mort Künster. Text by James I. Robertson, Jr. $34.95 plus S & H $34.00 * KY sales tax $2.34 "Gettysburg - The Paintings of Mort Künster" Text by James M. McPherson $24.95 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.74 Confederate Women Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn $15.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $1.08 The Search for Buternut by David Chaltas & Richard R. Brown $7.25 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.61 Brothers Once More by David Chaltas & Richard R. Brown $7.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.60 Letters From Home by the Friends of Middle Creek $5.00 plus S & H $2.50 * KY sales tax $0.45 Three Kentucky Presidents: Lincoln, Taylor, Davis by Holman Hamilton $12.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $0.96 A Civil War Classic: The Life of Johnny Reb the Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Iewin Wiley $16.55 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.26  OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST "A True Man of God, A Biography of Father Ralph William Beiting, Founder of the Christian Appalachian Project" by Anthony J. Salatino $22.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.66 "Into the Wilderness: The Lewis and Clark Expedition" by James J. Holmberg $6.00 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.54 "Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" by Robert Hendrickson $14.95 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $1.08 "Cooking Healthy with Wild Game" by Robert Rinker $12.95 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.96 "Death in Dixie" Editors: Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg $9.95 plus S & H $3.00 * KY sales tax $0.78 "Appalachian Love Stories" Editors: James M Gifford & Edwina Pendarvis $15.00 plus S & H $4.00 * KY sales tax $1.14   Return to top