Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Out-doors in Old Kentucky

Fox Jr., John

ISBN 10: 0813108209 / ISBN 13: 9780813108209

Published by University Press of Kentucky, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Out-doors in Old Kentucky
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813108209
• ISBN 13: 9780813108209
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.