Blue-grass and Rhododendron (Illustrated): Out-doors in Old Kentucky

by John Fox Jr

Overview

Blue-grass and Rhododendron: 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 (https://bit.ly/33wCy7Z).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160942537
Publisher:	New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901
Publication date:	02/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

John Fox, Jr., (December 16, 1862 – July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Fox was one of Virginia’s best-selling writers in the first decade of the twentieth century. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively. In The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the character Devil Judd Tolliver was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, the sheriff of Wise County, Virginia. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's southern Appalachia, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region.

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