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Made me nostalgic for my teenage reading habits: historical fiction, adventure: Ivanhoe, Kidnapped, James Fenimore Cooper. But, ended a little too rah rah-tame the wilderness, for my taste. Still, I learned a lot about how Kentucky was settled. Giles, a woman of the 1950s, portrayed prejudices honestly, if one-sidedly, with characters exhibiting both admirable and (as the book‘s wonderful vernacular would have it) misadmirable qualities.

“Lordy, but it was fair and pretty.”

Starting my pre-road-trip, get-in-the-mind-to-drive-36 hours book queue. Focusing on Kentucky as: I‘ve never been and it falls mid-way round the circle we‘ll make.