This is the true story of a young Kentucky woman whose husband joins the Union Army in the Civil War but finds she cannot manage their little farm without him. She learns he has been wounded and decides to travel nearly 200 miles on foot and horseback through primitive country to try to rescue him from the war. She takes her 3-year-old daughter with her and finds several serious obstacles on her long journey, including trying to swim across a flooded river, warding off a bear attack and dealing with soldiers who try to commandeer her horse and goods. The story speaks from the point of view of both her and her husband, who is embroiled in serious war battles at his Cumberland Gap, Tn., military post.

The inside story of the University of Kentucky's involvement in the college basketball point-shaving scandal of the 1940-50s, including heretofore never-published information about how gamblers enticed players to take part in the scheme.

This is the story of the characters and circumstances surrounding the wildest college football game ever played: Georgia Tech's 222-0 victory over little Cumberland University on Oct. 7, 1916, in Atlanta. Cumberland dropped football after a disastrous 1915 season in which it was outscored by an aggregate 276-0 in five games. But Cumberland beat the Georgia Tech baseball team 22-0 by illegally using a half dozen professional players. Coach John Heisman, who coached the Tech baseball and football teams, discovered that Cumberland had not formally cancelled its contract to play Tech in football in 1916. Heisman, looking for revenge, insisted the game be played or Cumberland would have to pay Tech a $3,000 forfeit fee (a huge sum at the time). Cumberland wanted to avoid the costly forfeiture fee so it told the school's young sports team's managers, George Allen, to somehow come up with a team to play Tech. Allen's adventures in putting together a bunch of misfits and finding a coach result in some hilarious moments. The game itself also included numerous humorous situations.

John Parker has been a mailman for nearly 30 years and now his two teenage daughters are ready to start college. But they want to attend schools that would cost him more than $100,000 a year. He cannot afford to send them to such elite schools, but he does not want to smash their dreams. So, he resorts to a life of crime -- robbing and murdering more than half a dozen people on his walking mail route. His familiarity with his victims allows him to learn which ones are prime candidates for robbery. The thefts inadvertently turn into murders and Parker finds himself in too deep to get out. But the police are stymied in their efforts to catch him and his robbery treasury grows to several hundred thousand dollars. But he finds his personal home life is going through amazing changes and tries to cope as a criminal and a father.