Chapter I: Dedicate These Recollections

OF A LIFE THAT SHE HAS LOYALLY
SHARED, ENCOURAGED, AND INSPIRED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introductory 1

II. The Country as I First Knew It--Intensity of Its
Americanism--The Lure of New Orleans 2

III. Provincialism--A Travel Center--Road Conditions--
Mails--The Estrangement of Communities and Other
Isolating Conditions 4

IV. The Composite West--Dialect--The Intellectual Class 7

V. The Sturdy Kentuckians and Their Influence 9