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A vanishing America : the life and times of the small town
- Title
- A vanishing America : the life and times of the small town / Twelve regional towns by Hodding Carter [and others] Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Edited by Thomas C. Wheeler.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1964]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 1053.9683 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 191 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 28 cm
- Summary
- Twelve writers seek to recapture the lore and legends, local color, enterprises, and vanishing values that have marked rural life in America.
- Subject
- Contents
- Vision of a Yankee : Middlebury, Vermont / W. Storrs Lee -- Individualists under the shade trees : Pine Grove, Pennsylvania / Conrad Richter -- First pioneer blazed a resort : Harrodsburg, Kentucky / Thomas D. Clark -- Proud struggle for grace : Holly Springs, Mississippi / Hodding Carter -- Social experiments on the Wabash : New Harmony, Indiana / William E. Wilson -- Gentility in a new New England : Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota / James Gray -- Gateway of a gaining nation : Nacogdoches, Texas / John Edward Weems -- Still young sunlight : Chimayo, New Mexico / Winfield Townley Scott -- Rocky Mountain fantasy : Telluride, Colorado / David Lavender -- End of their wanderings : Choteau, Montana / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Victorian shadows on Walnut and Main : Red Bluff, California / Oscar Lewis -- Last frontier in a dark forest : Forks, Washington / William O. Douglas.
- LCCN
- 64021932
- OCLC
- ocm00419860
- 419860
- SCSB-166683
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library