| Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Frontiers-Then and Now; The Past; Writing about the Past; Native Americans in Kentucky; Paleoindians, 10,000 B.c.-8,000 B.C.; Archaic Period, 8,000 B.c.-1,000!l.c.; Woodland Period, 1,000 B.C.-A.D. 1000; Late Prehistoric Period, A.D. 1000-1750; The Great Dying; The Name ""Kentucky""; Chapter 2 Starting a State; The First West; The First Explorers; What They Found; Coming to Kentucky; Settling a State; Daniel Boone; Hard Times; Choices; The End or the Frontier; Statehood; Chapter 3 Different Kentuckys; The People of Kentucky |
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Kentucky HomesThe Land; Climate; Geographic Regions; Jackson Purchase; Pennyroyal (or Pennynle); Western Coal Fields; Bluegrass; Mountains (Eastern Coal Fields); Cultural or Human Regions; Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky); Northern Kentucky; Bluegrass; South-Central Kentucky; Louisville; West Kentucky; Jackson Purchase; Regionalism; Kentucky Names; Chapter 4 The Government of Kentucky; Government; The Kentucky Constitulion; Change; Levels of Government; Branches of Government; The Executive Branch (the Governor); The Judicial Branch (the Courts); The Legislative Branch (the General Assembly) |
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The Mystery of ""Honest Dick"" TateChapter 5 Living in Kentucky; Daily Life; Clothes and Fashion; Food; Work; Health; Fun and Games; Basketball; Religion; Chapter 6 From Statehood to the Civil War; Slavery; Slave Life; Freedom; Antislavery; Key Political Leaders; Three Kentucky Presidents; Chapter 7 The Civil War and the End of a Century; The Brothers' War; On the Battlefield; Guerrillas; Results of the War; From the End of the Civil War to the Start of a New Century; Feuds and Murders; Chapter 8 Working in Kentucky; Farming; Early Business and King Coal; Modern Industries; Global Kentucky |
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Chapter 9 Words, Music, and MoreEarly Writing; Twentieth-century Writers; Modern Writers; Writing History, Poetry, and Drama; Newspapers; Music; What the Eye Sees; Motion Pictures; Chapter 10 Kentucky in the Twentieth Century; The Transportation Revolution; The Communication Revolution; The New Deal; Wars; Out-Migration; Equal Rights; Equal Rights for Women; Equal Rights for All Races; Politics; Chapter 11 Going to School; Early Kentucky Schools; Life in School; Special Schools; Schools in the Twentieth Century and Beyond; Colleges and Universities; Going to College |
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Chapter 12 Today and Tomorrow in KentuckyA Typical Kentuckian; Saving Pans of the Past; Future Issues; Your Future; Appendixes; Additional Sources for Research; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Manners and customs
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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History & Archaeology.
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United States Local History.
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Kentucky -- History -- Textbooks
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Kentucky -- Social life and customs -- Textbooks
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Kentucky -- Biography -- Textbooks
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| Subject |
Kentucky
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Textbooks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klotter, Freda C., 1946- author.
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| ISBN |
9780813160528 |
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0813160529 |
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