Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass by McVey, Frances Jewell

Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813191478)

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Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass by McVey, Frances Jewell

Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass

$15.00
Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass by McVey, Frances Jewell

Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Uncle Will of Wildwood is a warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass that recalls a defining period of Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ""every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain."" Wildwood was such a place, ruled by the affable Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was ""a cross between a hurricane and

Author: Frances Jewell McVey, Robert Berry Jewell
ISBN-10: 0813191475
ISBN-13: 9780813191478
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.46h x 6.02w x 0.41d
By Frances Jewell McVey
By Frances Jewell McVey
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Frances Jewell McVey (1889--1945) was the wife of University of Kentucky president Frank LeRond McVey.

Her brother Robert Berry Jewell (1896--1986) was a well-known Kentucky farmer and horseman. Will Goddard was their mother's great-uncle.

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