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Appalachian mountain girl / Rhoda B. Warren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, Rhoda B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Warren, Rhoda B.
- Mountain life.
- Letcher (Ky.)--Biography.
- Letcher (Ky.).
- Mountain life--Kentucky--Letcher Region.
- Letcher Region (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
- Letcher Region (Ky.).
- Coal miners--Kentucky--Letcher--Biography.
- Coal miners.
- Kentucky--Letcher.
- Kentucky--Letcher Region.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998.
- Summary:
- The story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky -- "the prettiest place in the world." With humor and warmth Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values sustained them. When Rhoda marries and moves to New York, it seems that her dreams of a better life have been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always "hovered in the backroads of her memory." When she revisits her homeland, this time as a "New Yorker, " she finds that Letcher is no longer the place of her memories.
- ISBN:
- 0897334647
- OCLC:
- 39269603
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