Richard Taylor

Broschiertes Buch

Three Kentucky Tragedies

Beschreibung

" Here are three tragedies from early Kentucky history: the defeat of a small army of Kentuckians by Indians at Blue Licks in 1782, the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews in western Kentucky in 1807, and the bizarre Beauchamp-Sharp murder in Frankfort in 1825. Taylor mixes history with good storytelling and a look at how human shortcomings sometimes lead to ruin.

Autor

From growing up with Maine parents in rural New Hampshire, his education came from Dartmouth, the University of Kiel (Fulbright Fellowship) and Yale. He has been a teacher of German language and literature in colleges, Latin and English as well at private secondary schools. A member and captain of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team and for many years a staff coach with the National Team, he was variously a construction worker, ski touring center designer and operator, and for twenty years (through 2007) a teacher and running and cross-country ski coach at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. He lives with his wife Sally in Bethel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9780813109077
• ISBN-10: 0813109078
• Artikelnr.: 22330785