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Heroes and Horses Tales of the Bluegrass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1996.Description: 1 online resource (128 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813148601
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F457 .H476 1996
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: War hero. Lawyer. U.S. Senate candidate. Horse lover. Farm boy. Fundraiser. To this impressive list add one more role ably filled by Philip Ardery: master storyteller. 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 the 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.Though the Ardery family and most of th.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction F457.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn900344349

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; ONE: Rocclicgan; TWO: The Folks at Home; THREE: Bourbon County Boyhood; FOUR: Horse Country; FIVE: Ed Simms and Xalapa; SIX: Claiborne Farm; SEVEN: A Hero of World War I; EIGHT: Prich; NINE: Barton Stone and Cane Ridge; TEN: Cap'n; Epilogue

War hero. Lawyer. U.S. Senate candidate. Horse lover. Farm boy. Fundraiser. To this impressive list add one more role ably filled by Philip Ardery: master storyteller. 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 the 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.Though the Ardery family and most of th.

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