Big Stone Gap Publishing

Big Stone Gap Publishing
5532 Powell Valley Road
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219

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ISBN#0-9632918-4-X
PRICE: $20.00
© 2009
Status: "NOW IN PRINT"

Black Mountain forms the State line between Kentucky and Virginia for much of the border's length. The mountain is shaped like the fork of a sling shot. In the east it begins where it joins Indian Mountain end to end. High above Flat Gap it runs for a mile or two due west. At the "Round" it makes a ninety degree turn to the south to the side of the head of Roaring Fork, and then turns slowly to the southwest before it divides into the prongs of the sling shot. At the "Doubles" half way along Black Mountain's length, Little Black Mountain splits off the larger northern fork. The State line follows Little Black to Pennington Gap, where it jumps over to Stone Mountain. The main fork of the sling shot goes to the beginning of the Cumberland River, at the City of Harlan, Kentucky. The hollow between the crotch of the sling shot is Bush Hollow, and its main off shoot is Razor Fork. The Clover Fork of the Cumberland River starts in Bush Hollow, and flows to Harlan, where it joins the Poor Fork of the Cumberland, which starts on the Kentucky side of Flat Gap. For a short segment between Eolia and Partridge the name of the Poor Fork inexplicably temporarily changes to Oven Fork.

The Southern side of Black Mountain has a series of long ridges, or spurs, that extend for miles into Virginia. Going from the east and westward, the spurs are Black Ridge, The Nine Mile Spur, Bluff Spur, Road Spur, Ison Rock Ridge, and Looney Ridge. Along the northern side the only major ridges extending into Kentucky are Benham Spur and Looney Ridge.

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APPALACHIA ANTHOLOGY

A collection of short stories about the Town of Appalachia, Virginia's founding and first fifty years.

TTHE BEAR GRASS
A History

A history of far Southwest Virginia, using a blend of factual data, new research, and oral tradition to tell the story of how we came to be who we are.

BENGE!

The story of the most successful and most dreaded of the Cherokee war leaders, and his assaults on the frontier.

THE FORTS OF THE HOLSTON MILITIA

Through a blend of new research and a thorough mining of historic documents, the story of the Southwest Virginia warfare is told as never before. The locations of thirty-seven of the forts used in these conflicts are newly documented, and the individual roles that they play are presented.

ATHAWOMINEE
THE GREAT WARRIOR'S PATH

Daniel Boone, Dr. Thomas Walker and Claudius Crozet are all indelibly linked with the GREAT ROAD TO KENTUCKY. New research has revealed much knowledge of the road's routes and the history of these men's contributions to it. All this is presented for the first time within these pages.

BLACK MOUNTAIN
"Mother of Today"

Coal, elk, Long Hunters, Northern Industrialists, forgotten routes of migration, Indians, feuds, land fraud, bushwackings, buffalo, Resurrection Day, Civil War murders, mine explosions, escaping the Trail of Tears, Black squatters, hangings, Indian burials, all these and more. You will want to read it all!

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