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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.
Carol Crowe-Carraco is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.
Publication Date
1979
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813192727
eISBN
9780813150246
Keywords
Kentucky, Big Sandy
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
Crowe-Carraco, Carol, "The Big Sandy" (1979). United States History. 31.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/31
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