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RECORD NUMBER: 1649 OF 1952Main Title | The Kentucky / | |||||||||||
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Author | Clark, Thomas Dionysius, ; Spelman, John Adams | |||||||||||
Publisher | Farrar & Rinehart, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1942 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 00769007 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Kentucky River (Ky) ; Kentucky--History ; Kentucky--Kentucky River ; United States, Kentucky--Historical geography | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Kentucky River ; Kentucky--History | |||||||||||
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Collation | x, 431 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-420) and index. |
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Contents Notes | This volume of the Rivers of America series, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer, traces the history of life along the Kentucky River from colonial days. The river -- John swift's silver -- Boonesborough, frontier outpost -- Off to 'orleans -- Kentucky steamboats -- Bluegrass kentuckian -- Kentuckian, mountaineer -- "All hands up and circle left" -- A land in which to dream -- Shakers -- Hard-shells -- Funeralizing -- A kentucky symbol -- Graham's springs -- Born to be a princess -- Dr. warfield's colt lexington -- Lion of white hall -- Shryock's ferry -- Nancy hanks -- The log run -- Moonshiners -- Politics, kentucky style -- Kentucky must eat -- This is the kentucky |