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| Author | : John Rhinehart |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2020-01-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1794886346 |
The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
| Author | : Alessandro Portelli |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2012-09-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0199934851 |
This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
| Author | : Lydia Dykes |
| Publisher | : Ascended Ideas |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780982396988 |
Harlan County has many stories... Ever wonder how Billy G. Hollow or Maggie Lane got their names? Did you know Benham has its own mafia? Who held the record as the oldest citizen of Kentucky at the time he died? Which Benham citizen once cooked at the Smithsonian? And what exactly is a 'Blistered Cat' or a 'Harlan County Smoky'? Harlan County, Kentucky has a long history and a multitude of stories. Lydia Dykes has brought together the stories behind some of the people and places that are a part of the rich history of the region that many people may not know.
| Author | : Green C. Jones |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1985-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0813115213 |
G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
| Author | : Holly Fee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Harlan County (Ky.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John W. Hevener |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780252070778 |
Detailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, this book is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade.
| Author | : G. C. Jones |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-07-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0813143497 |
G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
| Author | : Henry Harvey Fuson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1942 |
| Genre | : Harlan County (Ky.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mari Adkins |
| Publisher | : Apex Publications |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2009-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 098215965X |
Harlan County Horrors is a regional based horror anthology by Apex Magazine submissions editor Mari Adkins. It will feature stories by Alethea Kontis, Debbie Kuhn, Earl Dean, Geoffrey Girard, Jason Sizemore, Jeremy Shipp, Maurice Broaddus, Robby Sparks, Ronald Kelly, Stephanie Lenz, Steven Shrewsbury, and TL Trevaskis.
| Author | : William H Turner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2021-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781952271212 |
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
