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.
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John Fox Jr. (1863--1919), author of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and many other books, remains one of Kentucky best-known and most popular writers.
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IT was only a little while ago that the materialists declared that humanity was the product of heredity and environment; that history lies not near but in Nature; and that, in consequence, man must take his head from the clouds and study himself with his feet where they belong, to the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Br'er Rabbit, Talton Hall, Br'er Coon, Uncle Job, Black Mountain, Bad Bend, Powell's Valley, West Virginia, Civil War, Iroquois Club, North Carolina, Stone Mountain, Civilizing the Cumberland, Henry Clay New!
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IT was only a little while ago that the materialists declared that humanity was the product of heredity and environment; that history lies not near but in Nature; and that, in consequence, man must take his head from the clouds and study himself with his feet where they belong, to the earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white girth, old darky, old mountaineer, red fox Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Br'er Rabbit, Talton Hall, Br'er Coon, Uncle Job, Black Mountain, Bad Bend, Powell's Valley, West Virginia, Civil War, Iroquois Club, North Carolina, Stone Mountain, Civilizing the Cumberland, Henry Clay New!
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- Daniel Boone: True Stories of Great Americans by Lucille Gulliver on page 53
- Red Fox by Anthony Hyde on page 281
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote in Front Matter
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr. in Front Matter
- Daniel Boone: True Stories of Great Americans by Lucille Gulliver on page 53
- The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia by Dwight B. Billings in Back Matter
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