History of Corporal Fess Whitaker
Author | : Fess Whitaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1918 |
ISBN-10 | : HARVARD:32044077655835 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book History of Corporal Fess Whitaker written by Fess Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.