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- Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Out-doors in Old Kentucky
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
Serving as tour guide, Fox invites his audience to go with him log rafting down the Kentucky River, bass fishing in the Cumberland Mountains, rabbit hunting in the Bluegrass, and chasing outlaws in the border country of Kentucky and Virginia. Along the route we meet Old South colonels and their ladies, lawless moonshiners and their shy daughters, bloodthirsty preachers, and educated young gentlemen visitors who explore the southern mountains for fun and profit. These sketches offer a delightful blend of macho adventure and sage observation by an erudite young writer who had lived in the two worlds that provide his subject matter-the elegant society of the Bluegrass aristocracy and the hardscrabble feuding clans of mountaineers.
Table of Contents
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- The Southern Mountaineer
- pp. 1-24
- The Kentucky Mountaineer
- pp. 25-54
- Down the Kentucky on a Raft
- pp. 55-76
- After Br'er Rabbit in the Blue-grass
- pp. 77-100
- Through the Bad Bend
- pp. 101-122
- Fox-Hunting in Kentucky
- pp. 123-148
- To the Breaks of Sandy
- pp. 149-176
- Br'er Coon in Ole Kentucky
- pp. 177-206
- Civilizing the Cumberland
- pp. 207-236
- Man-Hunting in the Pound
- pp. 237-256
- The Red Fox of the Mountains
- pp. 257-270
- The Hanging of Talton Hall
- pp. 271-294
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813127576
Related ISBN(s)
9780813108209, 9780813118420, 9780813137742
MARC Record
OCLC
778436156
Pages
324
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No