
The Big Sandy
Carol Crowe-Carraco(Author)
The University Press of Kentucky
Published on 10. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
154 pages
978-0-8131-9272-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as The Big Sandy demonstrates, steamboats did much to shape the culture of the region. Carol Crowe-Carraco offers an intriguing and readable account of this region's history from the days of the venturesome Long Hunters of the eighteenth century, through the bitter struggles of the Civil War and its aftermath, up to the 1970s, with their uncertain promise of a new prosperity. The Big Sandy pictures these changes vividly while showing how the turbulent past of the valley lives on in the region's present.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lexington
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
8 b&w photos, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
173 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8131-9272-7 (9780813192727)
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Person
Carol Crowe-Carraco is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.