Baker, Kay Gaston.  George A. Dickel was a Nashville liquor wholesaler, and his George A. Dickel & Company distributed the Cascade brand of whiskey, distilled in nearby Coffee County, Tennessee.  Dickel had two partners, Meier Salzkotter and V.E. Schwab, and in 1888, Schwab purchased two-thirds of the Cascade Distillery.  In 1894, Schwab gained full control of it.  Schwab operated the company in Nashville until Tennessee passed a Prohibition law in 1909.  The company moved to Louisville, Kentucky, until 1917.  After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the Schwab family then sold the company to Schenley Industries, which rebuilt the original Tennessee distillery site and resumed production in 1959.

Ball, Donald B. "Continuity and Change in Traditional Material Culture:  Notes on a Poured-Concrete Gravehouse in Middle Tennesse."  The peculiar grave is in Coffee County.

Ball, Donald B.  "Observations on the Form and Function of Middle Tennessee Grave Houses."  This survey of gravehouses in Cannon, Coffee, and Rutherford Counties, Tennessee, documents 16 that still exist in nine cemeteries.  Ball also discusses the former locations of gravehouses and explains what they meant to mourners and posterity.

Ball, Donald B.  "A Survey of Traditional Architecture and Related Material Folk Culture Patterns in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee."  This thesis outlines the dominant architectural patterns found in studying Euro-American materials.  Log structures, frame dwellings, and cemeteries in the Normandy Reservoir were the main features of this study.  

Ball, Donald B.  "Types of Early Grave Decoration in Middle Tennessee."  This work discusses early graves and their carved motifs in the Normandy Reservoir area of Coffee County.

Ball, Donald B.  "Wooden Gravemarkers:  Neglected Items of Material Culture."  This concerns a fading burial tradition in certain parts of Coffee County near the Normandy Reservoir.

Bedford County was Formed in 1807.  This site provides a history of the formation of Bedford County, Tennessee.  

Blue, Keith F.  The author conducted a series of interviews to show the depth of the private preparatory school experience in the Duck River area. Preparatory schools were once a foundational element of the state's education system.  

Boswell, George W.  This study includes much of the Duck River Basin.

Cogswell, Robert E.   Streeter, a Wartrace native, was a Country musician contemporary with the legendary DeFord Bailey.

Duncan, Bob, ed.  This is a collection of anecdotal columns about the history of Maury County, Tennessee, that were previously published in the Columbia Daily-Herald.  

Farrell, Colleen A., compiler.  This concerns William L. Polk and the contributions of the Polk family to Tennessee and the nation.

Hamilton, Neil A.  This work regards the founder of the sporting goods manufacturer in Tullahoma, Tennessee, who started out making horse collars.

Harvill, Halbert.  Harvill was a native of Hickman County, Tennessee.

Helsley, Jodie W. This work concerns a country doctor in Bedford County, Tennessee.

Holliman, Glenn N.  This document concerns the Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tennessee.

Horton, Adeline.  Wilhoite is in Marshall County.

Isom, Wiley S.  The book is about the Haley Community in Bedford County.

Jarmon, Laura C.  Talley was from Shelbyville.

Kayser, Jade.  William Ewing Fowler's 1937 thesis, Stories and Legends of Maury County, Tennessee, provides a rich source of Tennessee folklore, especially folk remedies and superstitions.

Kuntsling, Frances Williams.  The Tennessee State Library received the papers described by the author, including letters, diaries, and other materials of members of the Cooper family of Maury County, dating from 1716 to 1968.

Martinez, Corrinne.  This is a non-academic history of Coffee County written by a lay historian.  While there is plenty of interesting information in the book, it lacks sources to support claims made within the text.

McCallum, James.  The article describes the settlement of Giles County, Tennessee, and its early history.  

McLean, Emma Webb.  This document concerns the career of Sawney Webb, founder of the Webb School at Bell Buckle.

Mizell, Terrence A.  This work discusses some questionable dealings in the Tennessee Walking Horse business.

Polk, William R.  This work concerns Maury County.

Rogers, Eliza G. "Guideposts to Fortune."  This work concerns Marshall County.

Rogers, Eliza G.  "Pioneering Accounts of Frontier Religion."  The article includes incidents from Bedford and Marshall Counties, in Tennessee.

Smith, Samuel D., and Charlotte A. Watrin.   The document concerns the Zimmerie Brick Kiln operated in Marshall County.

Stephens, Wendell.  This document includes stories about hog-killing season from Bedford and Moore Counties, in Tennessee.

Talley, Thomas Washington.  The Negro Traditions.  This document concerns African-American folklore; Talley lived in Shelbyville.   

Talley, Thomas Washington.  "De wull er de wust (The will o' the wisp.)"  Talley was from Shelbyville.  This was the only story he collected that was printed in his lifetime.

Tate, Joel C.  This work concerns Marshall County.

Wassom, Earl E. This document includes transcripts from taped interviews with the operator of a traveling store in Bedford County, Tennessee.

Wolfe, Charles K.  The book contains over 400 rhymes collected in the early 1900s by Thomas W. Talley, a black chemistry professor from Shelbyville.  Most rhymes are American, but there are a few from Africa, Jamaica, and elsewhere.