Data on the current tobacco industry in Kentucky have been sup- 

 phcd by the Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 and the Departments of Revenue (Program and Research div. ), 

 Kconouiic Security (Research and Statistics div.), Agriculture, and 

 Economic Development (Agricultural Development div.), all of 

 Iventucky. A special note of thanks is due to Ira E. Massie, tobacco 

 specialist. University (jf Kentucky, College of Agriculture Cooperative 

 Ivxtension Service. Various recent standard publications of the U.S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, the Dept. of Conunerce, the Internal Revenue 

 Service, and of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Univer- 

 sity of Kentucky also provided information on pre.sent-day tobacco 

 agriculture and conunerce in Kentucky. Of value, too, was the article- 

 In' John H. Bondurant in Ketituchf Farm and Home Science (Winter 

 1959). 



For material on tobacco agriculture and c oinmerce in the later 19th 

 and earlv 2()th century the major sources depended on were "Report 

 on . . . tobacco," by j. B. Killebrew (in tlie lOtii Census, 1880); 77if 

 Vwductkm of White Burlcy Tobacco, E. J. Kinney, published by the 

 C'ollege of .\griculture, University of Kentuck) (1930); "Statistics of 

 .Manufactures of Tobacco," J. R. Dodge (in the 10th Census, 1880), 

 and Export and Manufacturing Tobaccos of the United States, E. H. 

 Mathewson, U.S. Bureau of Riant Industry (1912). 



The chapters on tobacco by Sanuiel H. Halley in Ilistort/ of Ken- 

 tucky, W. E. Connelley and E. M. Coulter, ed. Charles Kerr (1922), 

 were particularly valuable, as was "Th(! Tobacco Trade of Louisville," 

 by T. C W'atkins in Memorial History of Louisville, ed. J. S. Johnston 

 ( 1896). Other useful secondary sources were The History of Louis- 

 ville, B. Cas.seday ( 1852); The Wilderness Trail, C. A. Hanna (1911); 

 The S})anish-American Frontier, A. P. W'hitaker (1927); Histortj of 

 Kentucky . . . before 1H03, T Bodley ( 1928); Pioneer Kentucky, W. R. 

 Jillson (1934); The Black Patch War, J. C. Miller (1936); A Hisiory 

 of Kentucky, T. D. Clark (1937); Hisiory of Agriculture in the 

 Southern United States to 1860, L. C. Cray (1941); The Keelboat 

 Age on Western Waters, L. D. Baldwin ( 1941); The Story of Tobacco 

 in America, J. C. Robert (1952). and Kentucky Tradition, L. S. 

 Thomps(m (1956). 



The passage on p. 18 is from Steed's Kentucky Tobacco Patch 

 ( 1947); that on p. 26 is from Halley's article in the Kerr edition of 

 History of Kentucky ( 1922); the (pio'tation on p. 29 is from The Ken- 

 tucky River \avigation, Mary Verhoelf ( Filson Club. 1917). The 

 pre.sent-day historian quoted on p. 29 is NN'illard R. Jillson, from his 

 Kentucky in Anwrican History {c. 1933). The portion of a letter oji 

 p. 31 occurs in VerhoefT; the quotation on p. 33 is from The Crockett 

 Almanacs, ed. V. J. Meine ( 1955); that on p. 34 is from Mike Fink . . . 

 W. Blair and K. J. Meine (c. 1933); the excerpt on p. 35 is from 

 \erhoetf as is the report on p. 37. BiUings' book, (juoted on p. 46, is 

 I'obacco. Samuel Halley is the "practic;d ttjbacco man" cpioted on 

 p. 50. W'atkins' couunent on pp. 50-51 appeared in his article in 

 Memorial History of Louisville, ed. Johnston (1896). Cobb's Iwok. 

 (|uoted on p. 54, is Kentucky (e. 1924K The passage on p. 57 is from 



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