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'''Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith''', known as '''Betty Jane Gorin-Smith''' (born December 18, 1940), is an independent [[historian]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]], best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a 452-page study of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky|author=Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=Amazon.com|isbn=978-1-56469-134-7|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>
'''Betty Jane Mitchell Gorin-Smith''', known as '''Betty Jane Gorin-Smith''' (born December 18, 1940), is an independent [[historian]] from Campbellsville in Taylor County in central [[Kentucky]], best known for her book ''Morgan Is Coming!: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky,'' a 452-page study of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] John Hunt Morgan's raids in 1863 during the height of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-Coming-Confederate-Heartland-Kentucky/dp/1564691349|title=Morgan Is Coming: Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky|author=Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=Harmony House, accessed on Amazon.com|isbn=978-1-56469-134-7|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>
A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trailsrus.com/morgan/pr-704.html|title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004|publisher=trailsrus.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Battle of Tebbs Bend in Taylor and Adair counties. She is the author of the ''Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.''<ref name=book/> In 2004, then [[U.S. Representative]] Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:114:./temp/~r108ZgaJzh::|title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]'': 108th Congress|date=June 2, 2004|accessdate=February 25, 2011; material no longer on-line}}</ref>
A historic preservationist, Gorin-Smith worked to establish the Heartland Civil War Trails project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trailsrus.com/morgan/pr-704.html|title=John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky, August 18, 2004|publisher=trailsrus.com|accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref> She has been a primary leader of the preservation effort at the Battle of Tebbs Bend in Taylor and Adair counties. She is the author of the ''Green River Bridge Battlefield Driving Tour.''<ref name=book/> In 2004, then [[U.S. Representative]] Ron Lewis honored Gorin-Smith on the House floor and proclaimed her the "historian laureate" for the Kentucky Heartland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r108:114:./temp/~r108ZgaJzh::|title=Honoring Betty Jane Gorin-Smith|publisher=''[[Congressional Record]]'': 108th Congress|date=June 2, 2004|accessdate=February 25, 2011; material no longer on-line}}</ref>