The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History

Montell, William Lynwood

ISBN 10: 0609016458 / ISBN 13: 9780609016459

Published by Harper & Row, 1972

About this Item

Large paperback, first printing of this Harper Torchbook edition, moderate rubbing to the glossy cover and no other remarkable flaws, binding is clean and tight, contents are fine, "deals with a now-vanished community of mixed blood Negroes who settled in the midst of white farmers in the Cumberland Hills of southern Kentucky after the Civil War"; 289 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609016458
• ISBN 13: 9780609016459
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

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Synopsis

Few black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during the ninety years of its existence.". . . a new and long needed departure in American historiography. . . . This is in every way an impressive book. It contains detailed accounts of the informants, tables of folklore motifs, genealogical charts, a prologue and epilogue explaining authoritatively the hypotheses of oral traditional history, and handsome photographs of the Coe Ridge area."--Richard M. Dorson, Journal of American History. "Lynwood Montell has written an invaluable book for all those interested in the use of oral tradition as a tool in the reconstruction of history. . . . This is a book worthy of being on any folklorist's shelf."--Richaed A. Reuss, Journal of American Folklore.