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Harriette Arnow's search for truth as early American settlers knew it began as a child-the old songs, handed-down stories, and proverbs that colored her world compelled her on a journey that informs her depiction of the Cumberland River Valley in Kentucky and Tennessee. Arnow drew from court records, wills, inventories, early newspapers, and unpublished manuscripts to write Seedtime on the Cumberland, which chronicles the movement of settlers away from the coast, as well as their continual show more refinement of the "art of pioneering." A companion piece, this evocative history covers the same era, 17 show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1963
- Important places
- Cumberland River Valley, Tennessee, USA
- First words
- Sunday, September 30, 1792, was a date so important in the history of what was to be Middle Tennessee that long ago the Tennessee Historical Commission set up a marker bearing the date and other information.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We can also wonder how we would seem to Sally Buchanan and all her kin and neighbors.
- Original language
- English
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 7
- ASINs
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