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Bluegrass Cavalcade /
Kentucky history centers on the Bluegrass; this is not to say that the rest of Kentucky does not have a rich story, but chronologically, the beginning was here. Too, Bluegrass history can scarcely be separated from the rest of the state. Boonesboro and Harrodsburg, Henry Clay and Elizabeth Madox Rob...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2009.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Book One: The Promised Land; John Filson, With Joy and Wonder; Felix Walker, A New Sky and Strange Earth; Gilbert Imlay, This Delectable Region; Bernard Mayo, Goshen of the Western World; Grant C. Knight, God's Very Footstool; Anthony Trollope, A Very Pretty Place; Charles Dudley Warner, An Orthodox and a Moral Region; J. Soule Smith, Near to Heaven; Ulric Bell, That Particular It
- Book Two: The Land and its Heroes; James Lane Allen, Bluegrass Kentuckians; John Bradford, A Most Singular Circumstance.
- John A. McClung, After Anxious ReflectionTheodore Roosevelt, The Covenanting Spirit; Daniel Drake, I Well Recollect; John Robert Shaw, Bottle Fever; Noah M. Ludlow, Actors Were Funny People; Horace Holley, Nothing for Profit; Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Appearance of a Gentleman; Basil Duke, The Bearing of a Soldier; James Lane Allen, Belated, Fruitless Efflorescence; George B. Leach, Something Never Forgotten; Clement Eaton, This Appreciation of Leisure; Joe H. Palmer, The Finger of Providence; Book Three: A Joy to Man; Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Buckskin Petticoat.
- James T. Flexner, A Heroic ChoiceJefferson J. Polk, Love Entered into Me; Cassius Marcellus Clay, A Moment of Supreme Bliss; J. Winston Coleman, Jr., Emergency; Thomas D. Clark, Belle of the Elkhorn; Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Morning Star; Irvin S. Cobb, Unreconstructed Rebel; Book Four: The Sports of Gentlemen; William Littell, Too Much Spirit; Henry Clay, A Genuine American Policy; Thomas N. Allen, The 4th of July; Anonymous, Left-Hand Doin's; A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Sonny Boy; Patrick O'Donovan, Let the Folks See You; James Lane Allen, County Court Day; William H. Townsend, The Sale of Eliza.
- Anonymous, The Mystery of Quarter-RacingAnonymous, The Fastest Time Made; Basil Duke, The Art of Horse-Pressing
- John James Audubon, The Management of the Rifle; George Dennison Prentice, A Trial of Strength; Thomas D. Clark, The Sign of the Cockpit; J. Soule Smith, Zenith of Man's Pleasure; Henry Watterson, The Bottom of the Glass; Thomas D. Clark, An Air of Mystery; Allan Trout, Abundant Life; Joe H. Palmer, Jelly on Her Biscuit; Book Five: The Treadmill of Life; James B. Finley, Awful beyond Description; William Burke, Shouts of Triumph; Richard McNemar, Perfect Harmony.
- William Littell, The Said DistemperRichard Carter, Morning, Noon, and Night; C.W. Short, That Awful Scourge; Robert Penn Warren, Lie for Lie; Calvin Colton, Prisoner on This Blessed Day; Joseph Hergesheimer, The Right Age for Neutrality; John Fox, Jr., The Low Sound of Sobbing; Henry Watterson, These Noble Sentiments; Hughes, Schaefer, Williams, Awful Deed of Wrath; Joe Jordan, The Folly of a Few; Henry Watterson, To Hell.