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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459639803321

Titolo

Bluegrass cavalcade / / edited by Thomas D. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©1956

ISBN

0-8131-5046-9

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

917.69044

Soggetti

American literature - Kentucky

American literature

Electronic books.

Kentucky

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 Reflection Theodore 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 Choice Jefferson 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-Racing Anonymous, 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 Distemper Richard 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 Roberts are the cherished possessions of all Kentuckians. Jane Todd Crawford and Dr. Ephraim McDowell stood in for humanity. It is a great matter of local pride that they did so in Kentucky. Bluegrass Cavalcade brings together fifty-five Kentucky writers to write about their home state and to capture a