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The Big Sandy / Carol Crowe-Carraco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowe-Carraco, Carol, 1943-
- Series:
- Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf.
- Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Big Sandy River Valley (Ky. and W. Va.)--History.
- Big Sandy River Valley (Ky. and W. Va.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1979.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 demonstrates, steamboats did much to shape the culture of the region. Carol Crowe-Carraco offers an intriguing and readable account of this region's history from the days of the venturesome Long Hunters of the eighteenth century, through the bitter struggles of the Civil War and its aftermath, up to the 1970s,
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Through a River Threshold; 2 Kentucky's Last Frontier; 3 Contest for a Valley; 4 Along Sandy Shores; Photo Section; 5 Coal Country; 6 Kentucky's Land of Promise?; Notes; A Note to the Reader
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813188980
- 0813188989
- 9780813150246
- 0813150248
- OCLC:
- 900344088
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