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Slender is the thread : tales from a country law office /
In a supplement to his The American Language, H.L. Mencken encapsulated the early history of Kentucky: ""What is now Kentucky was the first region beyond the mountains to be settled. Pioneers began to invade it before the Revolution, and by 1782 it had more than 30,000 population. It was o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1987]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a supplement to his The American Language, H.L. Mencken encapsulated the early history of Kentucky: ""What is now Kentucky was the first region beyond the mountains to be settled. Pioneers began to invade it before the Revolution, and by 1782 it had more than 30,000 population. It was originally a part of Virginia, and the effort to organize it as an independent state took a great deal of politicking.""Kentuckian and lawyer Harry M. Caudill grew up in the coal fields of Letcher County. His book Slender is the Thread reflects the history of a state whose citizens had to labor for t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813146393 0813146399 9780813146409 0813146402 |