From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place Names - Softcover

Rennick, Robert

 
9780813109312: From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow: Unusual Kentucky Place Names
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813109310 ISBN 13: 9780813109312
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

" Of course you'll find Paradise in Kentucky, but it's only one of the many unusual place names in the Commonwealth. Meeting these names for the first time, visitors and residents alike assume that some clever or funny stories lie behind them. So they ask, how did Elkhorn Creek get its name? Were the roads to Red River really Hell each way? Did bugs really tussle in Monroe County? Why was everyone whooping for Larry? To be hospitable and helpful, Kentuckians have come up with convincing—if not always truthful—answers to these and other questions about how places got their names. Some of these stories were clearly not intended to be believed, though a few of them have been anyway. From Red Hot to Monkey's Eyebrow presents some of the classic accounts of Kentucky's oddest place names. Complete with map, index, and humorous drawings by Linda Boileau, this handy guide is a delight.

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Verlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813109310
ISBN 13 
9780813109312
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
92
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