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Uncle Will of Wildwood : Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass /
This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ""every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly ind...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2005.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a McVey, Frances Jewell, |d 1889-1945, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Uncle Will of Wildwood : |b Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass / |c Frances Jewell McVey & Robert Berry Jewell ; with an introduction by Thomas D. Clark ; illustrations by Robert James Foose. |
| 250 | |a Paperback edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Lexington : |b The University Press of Kentucky, |c 2005. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2016 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2005. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (128 pages): |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Author's Note; 1 In a Hell of a Hurry; 2 Wildwood; 3 You Can't Get to Heaven That Way; 4 Uncle Will, Sarah Eliza, and Their Children; 5 They're Too Damn Good to Sell; 6 Good Friends and Clever Neighbors; 7 This Year- The Beaten Biscuits. | |
| 520 | |a This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ""every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain."" Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by the titular Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was ""a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan."" The irrepressible Uncle Will, with his mad dashes to Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Goddard, Will, |d 1819- |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01820847 |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Goddard, Will, |d 1819- |
| 650 | 7 | |a Biography - General. |2 hilcc | |
| 650 | 7 | |a History & Archaeology. |2 hilcc | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Kentucky -- Biography. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Goddard, Will, 1819- | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Farmers -- Kentucky -- Biography. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |y 19th Century. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |x State & Local |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |x Historical. |2 bisacsh | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Foose, Robert James, |e illustrator. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Clark, Thomas D. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jewell, Robert Berry, |d 1896-1986, |e author. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive US Regional Studies, South Supplement IV | ||