The Caudills are one of America's largest and most historically interesting families. Originating in the South in the early 1700s, they have today spread out across nearly all fifty states, playing a vital role in the settling of America, from Appalachia to the Pacific Ocean. In his bestselling book, The Caudills: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study, the author, award-winning Southern historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook - a Caudill descendant himself - has penned a thoroughly captivating work, one that focuses on the etymology of the Caudill surname, the ethnology of the Caudills, and the genealogy of their ancestral line, dating back to 16th-Century Europe. Throughout its well researched 300 pages, one will find a treasure-trove of information, including a detailed discussion of the origins of the name and family, an extensive Caudill family tree, the Caudill family Coat of Arms, a list of Caudill researchers, useful Websites, and maps to Cawdor Castle in Scotland, with extra material on surname spelling variations and Caudill place-names. This is an important and unique title that everyone with an interest in the Caudills will be proud to have in their library. With its wealth of helpful research data on not only this intriguing European-American family, but on allied families as well, The Caudills is a "must-have" for all Caudill family members and friends, as well as Caudill researchers. The foreword is by Delmerene Caudill of Letcher County, Kentucky. Available in paperback and hardcover. Neo-Victorian scholar and Kentucky Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, a 7th generation Kentuckian of Anglo-Celtic Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of Henrietta "Henny" Caudill (1753-1836), is one of the most prolific and popular Southern writers in the world today. Known by literary critics as the "Southern Joseph Campbell" and the "New Shelby Foote," and by his fans as the "Voice of the Traditional South," he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author and editor of (currently) 76 books; all which have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our history books. The son of a Kentucky railroading family, a grandson of Appalachian coal miners, and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook is a lifelong writer with a 45 year background in history, science, and spirituality, and the author of the international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! His other works include: Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie; The Concise Book of Owls; The Great Yankee Coverup: What the North Doesn't Want You to Know About Lincoln's War; Heroes of the Southern Confederacy; Lincoln's War: The Real Cause, The Real Winner, the Real Loser; Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War; Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Oldest Political Tradition; Confederate Flag Facts: What Every American Should Know About Dixie's Southern Cross; North America's Amazing Mammals: An Encyclopedia for the Whole Family; Women in Gray: A Tribute to the Ladies Who Supported the Southern Confederacy; Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!; Christ is All and in All; Seabrook's Bible Dictionary; A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest; Give This Book to a Yankee: A Southern Guide to the Civil War for Northerners; Jesus and the Law of Attraction; Abraham Lincoln: The Southern View; Honest Jeff and Dishonest Abe: A Southern Children's Guide to the Civil War, and The Concise Book of Tigers.