Flowering of the Cumberland

by Harriette Simpson Arnow

Book Overview

The author of Seedtime on the Cumberland returns with another richly detailed evocation of pioneering in the Cumberland River basin, or what is now middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. Not a sequel but a companion piece, Flowering of the Cumberland covers much the same time - from the first settlement in 1780 to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Whereas Seedtime was preoccupied with solitary men and women struggling to secure food, clothing, shelter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813101476
• ISBN13: 9780813101477
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Flowering of the Cumberland

Flowering of the Cumbmerland was a wonderful book, and well written. Carole