Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: a Study in Anthropogeography
By Ellen Churchill Semple · Running time 01:27:34 · Political Science, Modern (19th C), Exploration
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In one of the most progressive and productive countries of the world, and in that section of the country which has had its civilization and its wealth longest, we find a large area where the people are still living the frontier life of the backwoods, where the civilization is that of the eighteenth century, where the people speak the English of Shakespeare's time, where the large majority of the inhabitants have never seen a steamboat or a railroad, where money is as scarce as in colonial days, and all trade is barter. It is the great upheaved mass of the Southern Appalachians which, with the
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