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Kentuckians in History and Literature (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Kentuckians in History and Literature Practically all of the studies have required research, efiort - the most fascinating, labori ous, and disappointing of literary labor; and they have also required 001. R. T. Durrett's wonderful library of Kentuckiana. Mr. Madi son Oawein, Louisville, Kentucky; Mr. Mont gomery Blair, Washington, D. O.; Hon. William Nelson, Secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, and Mrs. Jennie O. Mor ton, Secretary Of the Kentucky Historical So ciety, have assisted me in making the essays reliable, and I have done my best to make them readable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...
Richard Hickman Menefee
Richard Hickman Menefee was a renowned lawyer, journalist and politician who served as a Whig from Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1837 to 1839. This biography written by John Wilson Townsend explores his life, career, and contributions to the American political landscape. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912 (Complete)
Mr. Townsend's fellow countrymen must feel themselves to be put under a beautiful obligation to him by his work entitled Kentucky in American Letters. He has thus fenced off for the lovers of New World literature a well watered bluegrass pasture of prose and verse, which they may enter and range through according to their appetites for its peculiar green provender and their thirst for the limestone spring. This strip of pasture is a hundred years long; its breadth may not be politely questioned! For the backward-looking and for the forward-looking students of American literature, not its merely browsing readers, he has wrought a service of larger and more lasting account. Whether his patient...
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Series of articles from The Saturday Evening Post collected and presented to John Wilson Townsend by Irvin S. Cobb; with comments written by Cobb.
James Lane Allen
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