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- catalog abstract ""Beginning with an intriguing overview of the river's formation and characteristics, Ellis shows how the stream has helped shape Kentucky's environment, economy, and political culture. In centuries past, flotillas of flatboats carried whiskey, pork, and valuable raw materials downriver to markets in Louisiana. Later, the river became a source of entertainment as showboats brought theater, movies, music, and dancing to otherwise isolated communities." "Ellis also chronicles the effects of human interaction with the river. Bridges, ferry landings, locks, and dams appear around every bend, and individuals have continually tried to harness and control the river's power in the face of flood and drought. The book describes the environmental impact of settlement, logging, mining, and industrialization, developments that have sometimes tainted the Kentucky's mighty waters with silt, sewage, and trash."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11979804.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky River (Ky.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Kentucky River (Ky.) History.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Beginning with an intriguing overview of the river's formation and characteristics, Ellis shows how the stream has helped shape Kentucky's environment, economy, and political culture. In centuries past, flotillas of flatboats carried whiskey, pork, and valuable raw materials downriver to markets in Louisiana. Later, the river became a source of entertainment as showboats brought theater, movies, music, and dancing to otherwise isolated communities."".
- catalog description ""Ellis also chronicles the effects of human interaction with the river. Bridges, ferry landings, locks, and dams appear around every bend, and individuals have continually tried to harness and control the river's power in the face of flood and drought. The book describes the environmental impact of settlement, logging, mining, and industrialization, developments that have sometimes tainted the Kentucky's mighty waters with silt, sewage, and trash."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-219) and index.".
- catalog description "The Kentucky: Time and the River -- Folds, Faults, and Uplifts: The Geology of the Kentucky -- Riding the Tide: Logging and Rafting on the Kentucky -- Harnessing the River: Ferries, Bridges, and Dams -- The River Always Wins: Flooding, Drowning, and Drought on the Kentucky -- My Mind on the River: The Kentucky River as Subculture -- Don't Step in a Shadow: Working on the Kentucky -- Whither the Kentucky? The River, the People, the Future.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 226 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Kentucky River.".
- catalog identifier "0813121523 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kentucky River.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Ohio River Valley series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Kentucky River.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky Kentucky River.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky River (Ky.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky River (Ky.) History.".
- catalog subject "976.9/3 21".
- catalog subject "F457.K3 E45 2000".
- catalog subject "Interviews Kentucky Kentucky River.".
- catalog subject "Oral history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Kentucky: Time and the River -- Folds, Faults, and Uplifts: The Geology of the Kentucky -- Riding the Tide: Logging and Rafting on the Kentucky -- Harnessing the River: Ferries, Bridges, and Dams -- The River Always Wins: Flooding, Drowning, and Drought on the Kentucky -- My Mind on the River: The Kentucky River as Subculture -- Don't Step in a Shadow: Working on the Kentucky -- Whither the Kentucky? The River, the People, the Future.".
- catalog title "The Kentucky River / William E. Ellis.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".