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Kentucky Harness Horse
Av Ken McCarr
Inbunden, 1978
445 kr
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This informative book shows how the influence of Kentucky Standard breeding spread across the nation and finally around the world. Here is the story of the horses and farms, the men and women who made it possible. Rich with anecdote and founded on a unique store of learning, it will delight both …
Audubon
The Kentucky Years
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his years in the state came long before publication of the monumental Birds of America, he was already painting the scenes from nature that were to make him …
Big Sandy
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as The Big Sandy …
Brittle Sword
The Kentucky Militia, 1776-1912
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-five, helped to secure the West for white settlers during the bloody Indian wars. Its members suffered …
Cities in the Commonwealth
Two Centuries of Urban Life in Kentucky
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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From the 1780s, when Louisville and Lexington were tiny clusters of houses in the wilderness, to the 1980s, when more than half of all Kentuckians live in urban areas, the growth of cities has affected nearly all aspects of life in the Commonwealth. These urban centers have led the state in …
County in Kentucky History
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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In the nineteenth century, Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of racehorses, whiskey, tobacco -- and new counties. By 1886 the three original Kentucky counties had been carved into 119 (belated 120th was to be formed in 1912). These small divisions commanded the fierce loyalty of …
Darkness at Dawn
Appalachian Kentucky and the Future
Häftad, 2009
370 kr
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Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered "no people in the nation...more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time." Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation …
David Wendel Yandell
Physician of Old Louisville
Av Nancy Baird
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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David Wendel Yandell was the most distinguished physician of a family noted for its contributions to the medical profession over a period of generations. Like his father before him, Yandell taught for many years at the Medical Department of the University of Louisville. His years as a Confederate …
Dear Alben
Mr. Barkley of Kentucky
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Alben Barkley's final words before he was struck down by a heart attack summed up his long, eventful life: "I have served my country and my people for half a century as a Democrat. I went to the House of Representatives in 1913 and served fourteen years. I was a junior Congressman, then I became a …
Green River of Kentucky
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio River in the north. The Green River of Kentucky presents a picture of the unity and diversity of the …
Harvest and the Reapers
Oral Traditions of Kentucky
Av Kenneth Clarke, Mary Washington Clarke
Häftad, 2009
533 kr
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The oral tradition of Kentucky is one of the most rich and interesting in the nation and has attracted a number of outstanding men and women -- scholars and writers, teachers and singers -- who have devoted their energies to Kentucky's folk and their ways. Some have collected examples of the …
John Wesley Hunt
Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer and Financier
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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When John Wesley Hunt came to Kentucky in 1794, his plan was to open a general store in Lexington. A canny judge of business opportunity, he soon expanded his activities and became one of the responsible figures of Kentucky banking and finance. In another kind of venture, he imported fine stallions …
Kentucky and the Second American Revolution
The War of 1812
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Alarmed by infringements upon American commerce during the Napoleonic Wars, Kentuckians were early proponents of war with Great Britain. As a frontier state, Kentucky feared exposure to raids by British troops and their Indian allies. And so, when President Madison finally obtained a declaration of …
Kentucky Fighting Men
1861-1946
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Kentuckians by the thousands have fought in all of the American wars of the industrial age. Fathers, sons, and brothers from the Bluegrass State spilled each other's blood in countless Civil War battles and skirmishes. Over the next century their descendants bore arms on the seven seas, the Far …
Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era
Av Ross A Webb
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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Although Kentucky was not subject to reconstruction as such, the period of readjustment following the Civil War was a troubled one for the Commonwealth. Violence begun by guerillas continued for years. In addition, white "Regulators" tried to cow the new freedmen and keep them in a perpetual state …
Kentucky's Age of Wood
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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The old tools and wooden objects illustrated in this book are homely reminders of a time when the majestic forests of the frontier were the source not only of the pioneer's house, barn, and fences, but of his children's toys, his wife's egg basket, and a hundred other necessities and pleasures. …
Luke Pryor Blackburn
Physician, Governor, Reformer
Av Nancy Baird
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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Deadly epidemics of yellow fever and Asiatic cholera plagued the South throughout the nineteenth century, yet doctors had few effective weapons against the diseases. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Kentucky-born physician, worked with more success than most to save the lives of those who were stricken and …
Medicine in Kentucky
Av John H Ellis
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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In this informed and entertaining essay, John H. Ellis describes the efforts of physicians and laymen to keep illness at bay during Kentucky's first 200 years. Medicine in Kentucky is part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, "a celebration of two centuries of the history and culture of The …
Newspaper Press in Kentucky
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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The story of Kentucky's newspapers is the story of our political, economic, and social life. It is the story of issues and answers, the story of life and death. Newspapers, by their very nature, become sources of historical studies. They recount day by day or week by week the happenings, joyous or …
Proud Kentuckian
John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875
Av Frank H Heck
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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In his brief life John C. Breckinridge embraced the roles of lawyer, politician, statesman, soldier, exile, and businessman. An imposing and tactful man, he was exceptional for evoking both loyal devotion from his followers and generous respect from his opponents during a strife-torn …
Three Kentucky Artists
Troye, Hart, Price
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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The three artists whose lives are the subjects of Three Kentucky Artists -- Joel Tanner Hart, Samuel Woodson Price, and Edward Troye -- enjoyed considerable fame in their own day, though they are now little known outside of Kentucky. Each made a lasting contribution to the social and cultural life …
Tobacco and Kentucky
Av W F Axton
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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For centuries before Europeans came to the New World, tobacco had an important role in the religious and social life of the early peoples of Kentucky. W.F. Axton describes the various forms in which tobacco has been used, its quick adoption by the Old World, and its gradual development into the …
William Goebel
The Politics of Wrath
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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The turbulent career of William Goebel (1856--1900), which culminated in assassination, marked an end-of-the-century struggle for political control of Kentucky. Although populism had become a strong force in the nation, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and ex-Confederates still dominated the …
Women in Kentucky
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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In more than two hundred years of statehood, most Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the first settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the ordinary women of lonely frontier farms, the women both …
