QUESTS
By David M Burns
$12.95, Paperback, 6 x 9, 188 pages. ISBN: 0-595-21175-5
Published: Jan-2002;
International orders:
Call 00-1-402-323-7800
A book-obsessed young man (born 1928) growing up poor during the Depression in a small town in Appalachian Kentucky. Runs away on his 15h birthday and after adventures in New York and Washington, and a stint in the Air Force, manages with incredible luck and some determination, to be admitted (in 1949) to Princeton. Book also includes vivid accounts of 18th-century Long Hunters, pioneer settlers following The Wilderness Road to Kentucky, gristmills and sawmills, and coal. Depicts the systematic plunder of Kentucky's game, land, timber, coal, and its people.
[See also www.cumberland-ford.org and www.knlt.org.]
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