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About the Author

A lifelong native of Harrodsburg, Bobbi Dawn Rightmyer writes books of narrative historical nonfiction and historical articles for the Harrodsburg Herald, Kentucky Monthly, the Advocate-Messenger, and Kentucky Humanities. Her latest book, James Harrod details the beginning of the historic city of Harrodsburg and life of the pioneer, soldier, and visionary man who founded the first permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.