Bluegrass and Rhododendron-Pa: Out-Doors in Old Kentucky - Softcover

Fox, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813108209 ISBN 13: 9780813108209

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in the border country of Kentucky and Virginia. Along the route we meet Old South colonels and their ladies, lawless moonshiners and their shy daughters, bloodthirsty preachers, and educated young gentlemen visitors who explore the southern mountains for fun and profit. These sketches offer a delightful blend of macho adventure and sage observation by an erudite young writer who had lived in the two worlds that provide his subject matter-the elegant society of the Bluegrass aristocracy and the hardscrabble feuding clans of mountaineers.

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John Fox Jr. (1863--1919), author of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and many other books, remains one of Kentucky best-known and most popular writers.

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John Fox, Jr., was born in the Kentucky Bluegrass region but moved to the mountains at the end of the nineteenth century, in an era when the outside worlds was beginning to break through the mountain barriers to exploit the rich timber and mineral resources of the area.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0813108209
• ISBN 13: 9780813108209
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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