South from Hell-fer-Sartin : Kentucky mountain folk tales /

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Imprint:	Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, [1988] ©1988
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Tales -- Kentucky. Tales. Kentucky. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239887

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Other authors / contributors:	Roberts, Leonard W, editor.
ISBN:	9780813157351 0813157358 9780813116372
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties -- probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America -- Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-cla.
Other form:	Print version: Roberts, Leonard W. South from Hell-fer-Sartin : Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813116372

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