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  • My grandfather and Cordell Hull floated logs down the Cumberland River to the point where it meets the Caney Fork at Carthage.

    Vp Remarks At The Funeral Of His Father Albert Gore Sr ITY National Archives 1998

  • We were in a canoe on the Caney Fork, just the two of us.

    Vp Remarks At The Funeral Of His Father Albert Gore Sr ITY National Archives 1998

  • Caney Fork, feller that had dropped into the habit of whippin 'his wife -- and they hit him about forty-five, with a promise of more; and they say now that he's as sweet to his home folks as a June apple-pie.

    Old Ebenezer Opie Percival Read 1895

  • During the early winter one party of twenty men that went up Caney Fork on a short trip, killed one hundred and five bears, seventy-five buffaloes, and eighty-seven deer, and brought the flesh and hides back to the stockades in canoes; so that through the winter there was no lack of jerked and smoke-dried meat.

    The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • He was full of his plans and anxious about rains, lest a rise in Caney Fork should detain him in the mountains; and he often turned and surveyed the vast landscape with a hard, callous glance of worldly utility.

    In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

  • Caney Fork, and weighting it with rocks, saw it sink beneath the hiding waves.

    Dialect Tales 1883

  • The senior Mr. Gore's farm is on the opposite bank of the Caney Fork.

    Information Liberation 2009

  • In 1996, the mine twice failed biomonitoring tests designed to protect water quality in the Caney Fork for fish and wildlife.

    Information Liberation 2009

  • Waste material ends up in the tailings pond, from which water flows into adjacent Caney Fork, languidly rolling on to the great Cumberland.

    Information Liberation 2009

  • This includes rivers and tributaries in the Duck, Elk, Buffalo, Stones, Caney Fork and Harpeth river basins, and others that drain into the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.

    Top Stories - Google News 2009

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