“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books and pens many tales are transmitted from father and mother to son and daughter.” — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“However, it is doubtless true that in a vague way some of these poorer mountaineers, fiercely independent as they were, found something abhorrent in… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“Here the mountains were like the walls of a great jail which shut in the combatants. After Appomattox it was as though mortal enemies had been locked in the same prison without taking away the deadly weapons they knew so well how to use. Perhaps in no other region of the United States except the Southern mountains were the lives… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books and pens… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Central Appalachia is that it is becoming more marginalized in American life just when the country needs more than ever what… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
