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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...
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The University Press of Kentucky,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "" 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 get its name? Were the roads to Red River really Hell each way? Did bugs really tussle in Monroe County? Why was everyone whooping for Larry? To be hospitable and helpful, Kentuckians have come up with convincing -- if not always truthful -- answers to these and other questions about how places got their names. Some of. | ||
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