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From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow : unusual Kentucky place names /
"" Of course you'll find Paradise in Kentucky, but it's only one of the many unusual place names in the Commonwealth. Meeting these names for the first time, visitors and residents alike assume that some clever or funny stories lie behind them. So they ask, how did Elkhorn Creek...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1997.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; UNUSUAL KENTUCKY PLACE NAMES; Kentucky; Some Stream Names; Elkhorn Creek; Defeated Creek; Tearcoat and Illwill; Dreaming Creek and Drowning Creek; Lulbegrud; Lonesome Creek; Mare Creek; Bedstead Branch; Paradise; Morning View; Fancy Farm; Nonesuch; Mousie; Thealka; Feliciana; Rebel's Rock; Sally's Rock; Fogertown; Horse Cave; Red Hot; Kettle Island and Kettle; Deadman's Hill and Deadman's Grave; Torchlight; Wild Kitchen; Buzzard Roost and Jugernot; Pine Knot; Pinchem; Shake Rag; Needmore; Lickskillet; Rabbit Hash.
- BugtussleBlack Gnat; Helechawa; Other Hells; Rogue's Harbor; Monkey's Eyebrow; Tidalwave and Troublesome; Blue Hole; Tywhapity; Whoopflarea; No Creek; No Business; Nobob and Nolynn; Bears; Egypt; Decoy; Eighty Eight, Seventy Six, Twenty Six, Zero; Letters from the Postmasters; Whynot, Ono, Allagree; Pewee Valley and Pig; Albany; Sweet Owen; Products on the Store Shelves; Crum; Sedalia; Stop, Wait, and Uno; Zachariah; Yield; Buncombe; Fallen Rock; SOURCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX.