The Big Sandy (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf) - Softcover

Crowe-Carraco, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813192722 ISBN 13: 9780813192727

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Crowe-Carraco is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813192722
• ISBN 13: 9780813192727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154