Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

by G.C. Jones

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G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813115213

ISBN13:9780813115214

Release Date:January 1985

Publisher:University Press of Kentucky

Length:177 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

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