This list was maintained previously by the Tennessee State Library & Archives. The information may be duplicated elsewhere, but it is included here for reference.<\/p>\n
The Appalachian-Ozark area: Fentress County, TN.<\/b> Washington, D.C., FEMA, 1934. 5 pp. (Rural problem areas survey report #20).<\/p>\n
Atkinson, Luther. Remembrances.<\/b> N.p., 1992. 88 pp. (taken from the author’s newspaper columns).<\/i><\/p>\n
Best of the Fentress County Bluegrass & Crafts Festival.<\/b> Cookeville, WCTE- TV, 1983. 1 videocassette, 60 min.<\/p>\n
Biographical directory, TN General Assembly <\/b>(Fentress County, Preliminary #20). Nashville, TSLA, 1970. 49 pp.<\/p>\n
Butts, Charles. Geology & oil possibilities of the northern part of Overton County, TN & of adjoining parts of Clay, Pickett & Fentress counties.<\/b> Nashville, Williams Print. Co., 1919. 45 pp.<\/p>\n
Clarke, James N. To those seeking homes & health: Fentress County, TN, its advantages.<\/b> Allardt, the author, 1883. 11 pp.<\/p>\n
Ensor, Allison. “The birthplace of Samuel Clemens: a new Mark Twain letter.<\/b>” TN Studies in Lit.<\/i> 14 (1969), pp. 31-34.<\/p>\n
Fellowship United Baptist Church, 1857-1992.<\/b> Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1993. 83 pp.<\/p>\n
Fentress County Hist. Soc. History of Fentress County, TN.<\/b> Dallas, TX, Curtis Media Corp., 1987. 707 pp.<\/p>\n
Fentress County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis.<\/b> Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.<\/p>\n
Fentress, Willie B. “James Fentress.<\/b>” AHM<\/i> 7 (1902), p. 178.<\/p>\n
Glenn, Leonidas C. The northern coal field included in Fentress [& other] counties.<\/b> Nashville, TN Div. Geol., 1925. 478 pp. (TN Geol. Survey Bull. 33-B).<\/p>\n
Goodpasture, Albert V. “Mark Twain, southerner.<\/b>” THM<\/i> (ser. 2), 1 (1931), pp. 253-260. (reprinted in TN old & new<\/b>, vol. 2, pp. 280-287).<\/p>\n
Hogue, Albert R. Davy Crockett & others in Fentress County who have given the county a prominent place in history.<\/b> Jamestown, n.p., 1955. 32 pp.<\/p>\n
Hogue, Albert R. History of Fentress County, TN, the old home of Mark Twain’s ancestors.<\/b> Nashville, Williams Print. Co., 1916. 165 pp. (reprinted 1994 by Genealogical Pub. Co.).<\/p>\n
Hogue, Albert R. John M. Clemens, the father of Mark Twain.<\/b> N.p., 1927. 7 pp.<\/p>\n
Hogue, Albert R. Mark Twain’s Obedstown & Knobs of TN: a history of Jamestown & Fentress County, TN.<\/b> Jamestown, Cumberland Print. Co., 1951. 91 pp.<\/p>\n
Hogue, Albert R. One hundred years in the Cumberland Mountains along the continental line.<\/b> McMinnville, Standard Print. Co., 1933. 92 pp. (reprinted 1977 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).<\/p>\n
Humphrey, Valerie L. “The burial customs of Fentress County, TN.<\/b>” 1973. 10 pp. (student paper, Riedl Collection, UT Library)<\/i><\/p>\n
Kort, John R. An economic profile of Fentress County, TN: a statistical overview.<\/b> Knoxville, UT Tech. Assistance Center, 1975. 81 pp.<\/p>\n
Newsletter.<\/b> Vol. 1, 1989-. Fentress County Hist. Soc.<\/p>\n
Patton, C.D. Conflict in the Cumberlands.<\/b> N.p., n.d. 85 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Fentress County history as I reviewed it.<\/b> Jamestown, Fentress Courier<\/i>, 1987. 160 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Hill country history as I renewed it. <\/b>Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1989. 112 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Little Crab as I knew it. <\/b>Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1986. 52 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Local history as I pursued it. <\/b>Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1988. 80 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Mountain history as I rescued it.<\/b> Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1990. 140 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Our upper Cumberland heritage.<\/b> Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1993. 80 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Wilma recalls: local history.<\/b> Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1991. 124 pp.<\/p>\n
Pinckley, Wilma R. Wilma recalls– treasured memories.<\/b> Jamestown, Courier<\/i>, 1992. 132 pp.<\/p>\n
Soil survey, Fentress & Pickett counties, TN. <\/b>Washington, D.C., US GPO, 1995. 117 pp.<\/p>\n
Study of natural gas availability in Fentress County, TN for development of a gas transmission system for the TN Dept. Ec. & Comm. Dev. Oct. 19, 1981. <\/b>Tulsa, OK, Keplinger & Associates, Inc., 1981. 2 vols.<\/p>\n
TN Dept. Transportation [county maps<\/b>] issued periodically.<\/p>\n
TN Taxpayers Assn. Report upon its survey of the finances & management of the government of Fentress County, TN, an analysis of the county’s income, expenditures & indebtedness, 1934.<\/b> Nashville, TN Taxpayers Assn., 1935. 107 pp.<\/p>\n
TN Valley Authority. Ind. Div. Agricultural-industrial survey of Fentress County. <\/b>Knoxville, TVA, 1934. var. pp.<\/p>\n
TN Valley Authority. Regional Soils Database. Important farmland in Fentress County, TN.<\/b> Nashville, TVA, 1981. 1 map.<\/p>\n
Tharp, Mel. “Johnson rods, horseshoe bread & other TN colloquialisms.<\/b>” TN Folklore Soc. Bull.<\/i> 40 (1983), pp. 74-77.<\/p>\n
Tharp, Mel. “A social study of mountain folk humor.<\/b>” TN Folklore Soc. Bull.<\/i> 43 (1977), pp. 186-187.<\/p>\n
US Farm Sec. Admin. Survey of agricultural labor conditions.<\/b> Washington, D.C., n.p., 1937. 11 vols. in 1.<\/p>\n
US Geol. Survey [topographic maps<\/b>] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Moodyville, Pall Mall, Sharp Place, Barthell SW, Riverton, Jamestown, Stockton, Honey Creek, Wilder, Grimsley, Burrville, Rugby, Clarkrange, Jones Knobb.<\/p>\n
Wheeler, Hazel. The history of Wilder, Davidson, Highland Junction, Sandy & the hollow.<\/b> N.p., 1992. 60 pp.<\/p>\n
Wright, Rev. A. B. Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright. <\/b>Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts, 1896. 447 pp. (reprinted 1977 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).<\/p>\nAllardt<\/h2>\n
Allardt, a history. <\/b>Jamestown, Fentress Courier<\/i>, 1986. 132 pp.<\/p>\n
Allardt Missionary Society, Allardt, TN. The Allardt cookbook.<\/b> (5th ed., rev.) Allardt, Lola Gernt & June Bagse, 1953. 76 pp.<\/p>\n
Clarke, James N. & Annetta Gerntt. “History of Allardt.<\/b>” THM<\/i> 9 (1925-26), pp. 185-189.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\nBuffalo Cove<\/h2>\n
Peavyhouse, Will C. A history of Buffalo Cove, Fentress County, TN. <\/b>N.p., 1969. 32 pp.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Jamestown <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Hale, William T. True stories of Jamestown & its environs.<\/b> Nashville, Methodist Pub. House, 1907. 156 pp.<\/p>\n Wheeler, Hazel. Jamestown: back then… & now: containing 194 photographs reminiscent of the past & the progress in recent years.<\/b> N.p., 1990. 100 pp.<\/p>\n Wright, Absalom B. “Jamestown Circuit<\/b>“. (In Autobiography of Rev. A. B. Wright of the Holston Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South<\/b>, pp. 63-78, 94-173)<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Crabtree, Font F. The Wilder coal strike of 1932-33.<\/b> George Peabody College thesis, 1937. pp.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Alvin C. York Industrial Institute (Jamestown, TN): information about the Alvin C. York Industrial Institute, “America’s tribute to Sergeant York.”<\/b> Jamestown, n.p., 1927. 16 pp.<\/p>\n Andrews, Peter. Sergeant York: reluctant hero<\/b>. Illustrated by Charles Brey. NY, Putnam, 1969. 95 pp. (juvenile<\/i>).<\/p>\n Birdwell, Michael E. The making of the movie Sergeant York<\/i>: a journey from reality to myth.<\/b> TTU thesis, 1990. 113 pp.<\/p>\n Cowan, Samuel K. Sergeant York & his people. <\/b>NY, Funk, 1922. 292 pp. (reprinted 1960 by Fentress County Hist. Soc.).<\/p>\n Hoobler, James A. “Sergeant York Historic Area.<\/b>” THQ<\/i> 38 (1979), pp. 3-8.<\/p>\n Humble, R.G. Sgt. Alvin C. York: a Christian patriot.<\/b> Circleville, OH, the Churches of Christ in Christian Union, 1966. 41 pp.<\/p>\n Kinder, Sambra R. A brief history of the early years of the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute.<\/b> Carson Newman College thesis, 1990. 56 pp.<\/p>\n Lee, David D. Sergeant York: an American hero.<\/b> Lexington, KY, U. Press of KY, 1985. 162 pp.<\/p>\n McGaw, Robert A. “A likeness to Sergeant York.<\/b>” THQ<\/i> 27 (1968), pp. 329- 340.<\/p>\n Pattullo, George. The second elder gives battle.<\/b> Nashville, Brandon Print. Co., 1919. 19 pp.<\/p>\n Ridout, George W. The greatest soldier of the war: story of Sergeant Alvin York, the Christian soldier who went through the great war winning the highest honors ever given a private, his testimony & life sketch.<\/b> Louisville, KY, Pentecostal Pub. Co., 1923. 16 pp.<\/p>\n Sergeant York: a Warner Bros.\/ First National picture<\/b>; directed by Howard Hawks; produced by Jesse L. Lasky & Hal B. Wallis; screen play by Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch & John Houston. MGA\/UA, 1969. 137 min.<\/p>\n Sergeant York & Red Dust.<\/b> [2 complete radio dramas; sound recording]. Pelican, 1973. (Sergeant York<\/i> originally broadcast Jan. 18, 1942, starring Gary Cooper with Joan Leslie & Walter Brennan; Red Dust originally broadcast Oct. 6, 1949, starring Clark Gable & Ann Southern.)<\/i><\/p>\n Sergeant York: the man behind the hero: unit containing four lesson plans. <\/b>Murfreesboro, MTSU, 1992. 18 pp. (elementary school lesson plans<\/i>)<\/p>\n Shanks, Maudean W. History of Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, Jamestown, TN, 1926-1992.<\/b> Allardt, the author, 1994. 345 pp.<\/p>\n Skeyhill, Thomas J. Sergeant York, last of the long hunters. <\/b>Philadelphia, PA, Winston, 1930. 240 pp. (reprinted 1993 by Christian Book Gallery, St. John, IN.).<\/p>\n Testimony of German officers & men anent Sergeant York.<\/b> Fort Humphreys, D.C., Army War College, 1936. 26 pp.<\/p>\n Weddle, Ethel H. Alvin C. York, young marksman.<\/b> Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs- Merrill, 1967. 200 pp. (juvenile fiction<\/i>)<\/p>\n York, Alvin C. Sergeant York, his own life story & war diary.<\/b> NY, Doubleday, 1928. 309 pp.<\/p>\n York Farm, Pall Mall, TN.<\/b> Washington, D.C., National Park Service, 1991. 1 sheet.<\/p>\n York, Gracie Williams. The reminiscences of Mrs. Alvin “Sergeant” York. <\/b>Glen Rock, NJ, MCA, 1976. 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