A Kentucky sampler : essays from the Filson club history quarterly 1926-1976 / / editors, Lowell Harrison, Nelson L. Dawson

• Pubblicazione: Lexington : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1977; ©1977
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (453 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 976.9
• Soggetto geografico: Kentucky History
• Persona (resp. second.): HarrisonLowell Hayes <1922->; DawsonNelson L.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Short History of The Filson Club; Introduction; I. THE PIONEER ERA; The Indian Place Names of Kentucky (July 1960); Bullitt's Lick: The Related Saltworks and Settlements (July 1956); The Harpes: Two Outlaws of Pioneer Times (July 1927); A Roof for Kentucky (April 1955); II. THE ANTEBELLUM YEARS; Asiatic Cholera's First Visit to Kentucky: A Study in Panic and Fear (July 1974); The Slavery Background of Foster's My Old Kentucky Home (January 1936); The Code Duello in Antebellum Kentucky (April 1956) ; Cassius Marcellus Clay and the True American (January 1948); Milksickness in Kentucky and the Western Country (January 1945); General James Taylor and the Beginnings of Newport, Kentucky (October 1976); III. THE CIVIL WAR; General John Hunt Morgan: The Great Indiana-Ohio Raid (July 1957); Quantrill's Missouri Bushwhackers in Kentucky: The End of the Trail (April 1964); Louisville, Kentucky, during the First Year of the Civil War (July 1964); South Union Shakers during War Years (April 1965); Incidents in the Life of Frank Wolford, Colonel of the First Kentucky Union Cavalry (April 1936) ; The Delicate Track: The L & N's Role in the Civil War (April 1962); IV. THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY; William Goebel and the Campaign for Railroad Regulation in Kentucky, 1888-1900 (January 1974); John M. Harlan in Kentucky, 1855-1877: The Story of His Pre-Court Political Career (January 1940); Bases for Conflicts in the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, 1890-91 (January 1972); Henry Watterson and the ""Ten Thousand Kentuckians"" (October 1950); Louisville's Labor Disturbance, July (April 1974); V. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Stoney Point, 1866-1969 (October 1976) ; The Banco Kentucky Story (January 1976); The Night Riders' Raid on Hopkinsville (October 1950); Amazing Best Sellers by Kentucky Women Writers (October 1967); The Kentucky WPA: Relief and Politics, May-November 1935 (April 1975); Paul Sawyier, Kentucky Artist: Some Recollections of Him (October 1959); The Charm of Kentucky Folklore (July 1947)
• Sommario/riassunto: The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical journals. Over the years it has published excellent essays on virtually every aspect of Kentucky history. Gathered together here for the first time are twenty-eight selections, chosen from the first fifty years of the journal's publication. These essays span the range of Kentucky history and culture from frontier criminals to best sellers by Kentucky women writers, and from Indian place names to twentieth century bank failures.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Kentucky sampler
• ISBN: 0-8131-8801-6; 0-8131-6308-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814448303321
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