Dan Lee

Three Rivers

A Kentucky Folk History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781476691909
• ISBN-10: 1476691908
• Artikelnr.: 73741594

Autorenporträt

Dan Lee has degrees in history from Murray State University and Western Kentucky University. He lives in Hardin County, Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
vii Preface
1 Part One-The Rolling Fork Introduction
5 One. The Struggle Begins
7 Two. Trailblazers
12 Three. Whiskey and Salt
22 Four. The Catholics Arrive
27 Five. The Struggles of Thomas Lincoln
34 Six. Steamboats and Railroads
41 Seven. Thunder in the Valley
46 Eight. Struggling Just to Live
60 Nine. Too Dry, Then Too Wet
64 Ten. The Rolling Fork Today
71 Part Two-The Nolin River Introduction
83 Eleven. The First People
85 Twelve. The River Gets a New Name
90 Thirteen. Devil on the Loose
96 Fourteen. Two Presidents, Two Fathers
103 Fifteen. The Remarkable Stephen
109 Sixteen. Blue and Gray on the Nolin
118 Seventeen. The Prosperous Years
129 Eighteen. Progress
139 Nineteen. Hard Times
145 Twenty. The Nolin Today
152 Part Three-Rough River Introduction
159 Twenty-One. The Legend of Spanish Fort
160 Twenty-Two. Settlers and Speculators
163 Twenty-Three. Murder at Pine Knob
174 Twenty-Four. Falls of Rough
182 Twenty-Five. The Price of War
189 Twenty-Six. Confederates
200 Twenty-Seven. Sinews of Steel
207 Twenty-Eight. Dying Time
218 Twenty-Nine. That High, Lonesome Sound
225 Thirty. Rough River Today
234 Chapter Notes
241 Bibliography and Note to Readers
259 Index
273