Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Out-doors in Old Kentucky John Fox Jr. Author

by John Fox Jr.

2021-04-06 17:17:12

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 t... Read more
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. Less

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Print pages324
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
Publication date April 27, 1994
ISBN9780813137742
Born in Stony Point, Kentucky, The United States December 16, 1862 Died: July 08, 1919 Genre: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories John William Fox was born in the heart of Bluegrass country in ...

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