Author: John Rhinehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.
Farther Along: Origins of the Cobb, Pope, and Ball Families of Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: John Rhinehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.
They Say in Harlan County
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Harlan County Stories
Author: Lydia Dykes
Publisher: Ascended Ideas
ISBN: 9780982396988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Ascended Ideas
ISBN: 9780982396988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
History of Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: Henry Harvey Fuson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
Author: Green C. Jones
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
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.
Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: Holly Fee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
A History of Harlan County
Author: Mabel Green Condon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
History Records of Harlan County, Kentucky People
Author: Annie Walker Burns
Publisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Which Side are You On?
Author: John W. Hevener
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.