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Flowering of the Cumberland / Harriette Simpson Arnow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, 1908-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)--History.
- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.).
- Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (467 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Harriette Arnow's search for truth as early American settlers knew it began as a child-the old songs, handed-down stories, and proverbs that colored her world compelled her on a journey that informs her depiction of the Cumberland River Valley in Kentucky and Tennessee. Arnow drew from court records, wills, inventories, early newspapers, and unpublished manuscripts to write Seedtime on the Cumberland, which chronicles the movement of settlers away from the coast, as well as their continual refinement of the "art of pioneering." A companion piece, this evocative history covers the same era, 17
- Contents:
- The siege of Buchanan's
- The underpinning
- The most important crop
- The makeup of society
- The sounds of humankind
- Intellectual background and education
- The horse
- Cows and other farm animals
- The farmer and his crops
- Industry
- The professions
- The business world
- River, road, and town
- Social life and diversions.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : MacMillan, 1963. With new introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-076-5
- 1-60917-371-6
- OCLC:
- 847615871
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