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Heroes and horses : tales of the Bluegrass

Title: Heroes and horses : tales of the Bluegrass / Philip Ardery.
Author: Ardery, Philip, 1914-
Publication: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1996], ©1996.

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vii, 119 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

Heroes and Horses presents a series of delightful vignettes evoking a way of life almost beyond recall. Bourbon County, the touchstone for Ardery's life, is the center that holds together the tales in this collection. Stories about Ardery's family home, "Rocclicgan," boyhood activities on the farm, and the servants' kitchen gossip paint vivid portraits of a lost time in Kentucky's history.
Ardery gives us a personal account of the rise and fall of Edward F. Prichard, Jr., whose life "seems something of a Greek tragedy." We hear the story of Reuben Hutchcraft, the county's greatest hero of World War I. We learn the history of Barton Stone and the Cane Ridge Meeting House, where the Disciples of Christ denomination was born before the Civil War.
And in one of the most moving stories in the book, Ardery tells of his respect and admiration for the wisdom of Cap'n, a former slave who worked on the family's farm during Ardery's boyhood.

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Contents

1. Rocclicgan -- 2. The Folks at Home -- 3. Bourbon County Boyhood -- 4. Horse Country -- 5. Ed Simms and Xalapa -- 6. Claiborne Farm -- 7. A Hero of World War I -- 8. Prich -- 9. Barton Stone and Cane Ridge -- 10. Cap'n.

ISBN

0813119928 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96027941

OCLC

ocm34926913

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Columbia University Libraries