James Lane Allen
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Description
Born in Kentucky, but moving to New York City in 1893, he wrote much about the America of his youth (Wikipedia).
Books
Reign Of Law
An historical novel which presents the economic importance of hemp as a early raw material for clothing, maritime ropes, and other cordage products. There is information about the growing and harvesting of hemp in this book.
Stories New and Old
General introduction: The short story, by H. W. Mabie-- Peter Ragg, the missing man, by W. Austin Dr. Marigold's prescriptions, by C. Dickens Rab and his friends, by J. Brown Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne [Pit and the Pendulum]( by E. A. Poe Will o the mill, by R. L. Stevenson The Marquis Jeanne Hyacinth St. Palaye, by J. H. Shorthouse Quite so, by T. R. Aldrich King Solomon of Kentucky, by J. L. Allen The game and the nation, by O. Wister
The Mettle of the Pasture
Work from "Kentucky's first important novelist" and an attempt to capture the spirit, and dialects, of his native Kentucky in the United States during the Civil War and post Civil War reconstruction era.
A Kentucky cardinal
This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.