The Mountain The Miner And The Lord And Other Tales From A Country Law Office

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146283
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office written by Harry M. Caudill and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146275
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office written by Harry M. Caudill and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Author : Harry M. Claudill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252007
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area written by Harry M. Claudill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.

Author : Wallace Neal Briggs
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813118079
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverside Remembered written by Wallace Neal Briggs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts the summers and holidays he spent at his grandparents' Mississippi home, and his friendship with a Black neighbor

Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199934851
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

Author : Thomas D. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813193850
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky written by Thomas D. Clark and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in the Cumberland Mountains to its entry into the Ohio, the Kentucky River flows through two areas that have made Kentucky known throughout the world—the mountains in the eastern part of the state and the Bluegrass in its center. In The Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark paints a rich panorama of history and life along the river, peopled with the famous and infamous, ordinary folk and legendary characters. It is a canvas distinctly emblematic of the American experience. The Kentucky was first published in 1942 as part of the "Rivers of America" series and has long been out of print. Reissued in this new enlarged edition, it brings back to life a distinguished contribution to Kentuckiana and is itself a historical document. In his new conclusion for this edition, Dr. Clark discusses some of the tremendous changes that have taken place since the book's initial publication.

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813133119
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky written by and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in the Cumberland Mountains to its entry into the Ohio, the Kentucky River flows through two areas that have made Kentucky known throughout the world -- the mountains in the eastern part of the state and the Bluegrass in its center. In The Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark paints a rich panorama of history and life along the river, peopled with the famous and infamous, ordinary folk and legendary characters. It is a canvas distinctly emblematic of the American experience. The Kentucky was first published in 1942 as part of the ""Rivers of America"" series and has long been out of pr.

Author : George Ella Lyon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813141443
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kentucky Christmas written by George Ella Lyon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state's emerging talents. Among the contributors to this handsome collection are Kentucky's visionaries, storytellers, historians, singers, cooks, children's authors, and poets, including all five Kentucky Poet Laureates. A delight for anyone interested in Kentucky literature, history, or traditions, A Kentucky Christmas promises to be a wonderful holiday gift, a treasured family keepsake, and a necessary addition for libraries and for personal collections.

Author : Deborah Adams Cooper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738587592
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letcher County written by Deborah Adams Cooper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1795, when Peter Whitaker built the first known settlement on what is now Linefork Creek, Letcher Countians have demonstrated the perseverance and fortitude for which Appalachian people are known. The majesty of Pine Mountain in the south of the county or the rare beauty of old-growth forests that became Lilley Cornett Woods must have brought Daniel Boone to seek a paradise in "Kanta-ke." Whitesburg and Letcher County have seen their resources of timber, oil, and coal bring growth, as well as decline. With the rise of the coal industry before World War I came a steady flow of Eastern European immigrants who contributed a new and exciting perspective on life, business, and art. It was Italian stonemason John Palumbo Sr. who led other Italians to Whitesburg because the beauty of it reminded him of his home in the Campania region of Southern Italy. The churches, homes, and buildings they established stand in homage to their energy and skill.

Author : Ron Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145759
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Woods and Waters written by Ron Ellis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment Daniel Boone first "gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and...beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below," generations of Kentuckians have developed rich and enduring relationships with the land that surrounds them. Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader is filled with loving tributes, written across the Commonwealth's two centuries, offered in celebration of Kentucky's widely varied environmental wonders that nurture both life and art. Ron Ellis, an outdoors enthusiast and noted writer, has gathered art, fiction, personal essays and poetry from many of Kentucky's best-known authors for this comprehensive collection. The anthology begins with famed illustrator John James Audubon's eloquent account of extracting catfish from the Ohio River and progresses through over fifty contributions by both established and emerging writers. Covering two hundred years of hunting, fishing, camping, cooking, hiking, and canoeing in Kentucky's woods and waters, these classic and original works show how writers have, as celebrated Kentucky historian Thomas D. Clark suggests, "fallen under the spell of the land." Of Woods & Waters does not merely recount fond memories. Many authors presented in this collection echo the sentiments of the award-winning novelist and essayist Barbara Kingsolver, who writes, "Much of what I know about life, and almost everything I believe about the way I want to live, was formed in those woods" adjacent to her birthplace in Nicholas County, Kentucky. The works collected in Of Woods & Waters serve to honor and defend what many recognize as a sadly declining way of life, one born out of genuine reverence for the beauty and bounty of nature. The contributions of Wendell Berry, Janice Holt Giles, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jesse Stuart, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, James Baker Hall, Silas House, and other esteemed authors examine the delicate balances that must be struck between humanity and nature, between progress and sustainable living. While raising these crucial questions, these writings center on connections among friends and family in Kentucky's beautiful natural surroundings. The authors spin tales of the whistling wings of ducks overhead, the heart-pounding excitement of a white-tailed buck's sudden appearance, the joy of childhood plunges into cold lake waters after hours of climbing trees, and the thrill of watching sons and daughters catch their first fish. In these writings, the bountiful Kentucky wilderness that first captivated frontier settlers remains vibrantly alive.