The Big Sandy
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Description
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.
ISBN
978-0-8131-9272-7
Publication Date
1979
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Keywords
Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Rivers, Kentucky Culture
Disciplines
Appalachian Studies | Cultural History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Crowe Carraco, Carol, "The Big Sandy" (1979). History Faculty Book Gallery. 5.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/history_book/5
Comments
Carol Crowe-Carraco is a University Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green Kentucky.