{"product_id":"the-big-sandy-carol-crowe-carraco-9780813192727","title":"The Big Sandy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sandy\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, steamboats did much to shape the culture of the region. Carol Crowe-Carraco offers an intriguing and readable account of this region's history from the days of the venturesome Long Hunters of the eighteenth century, through the bitter struggles of the Civil War and its aftermath, up to the 1970s, with their uncertain promise of a new prosperity. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sandy\u003c\/i\u003e pictures these changes vividly while showing how the turbulent past of the valley lives on in the region's present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Crowe-Carraco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813192722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813192727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Carol Crowe-Carraco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059821048063,"sku":"9780813192727","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c5f1048-3268-493d-83bb-06ab0bb721b1.jpg?v=1685060529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-big-sandy-carol-crowe-carraco-9780813192727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}