| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

The Kentucky River. By William E. Ellis. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 226 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2152-3.)

"From the beginning of white settlement, the Kentucky has been exploited, abused, misused, misread, and now neglected," writes William E. Ellis in his history of the Kentucky River. Ellis's research shows, however, that the river has also been loved and revered by many people because their lives depended on it so closely. They farmed land along its banks, fished it, worked on it as loggers, boat captains, and laborers, and drew sustenance from its waters in many ways. A major problem today, Ellis finds, is that Kentuckians still depend on the river (over 600,000 take their drinking supplies from it), but they no longer recognize their vital ties to the stream because they have become distant from it. Their only contact, Ellis argues, is just a fleeting glimpse of the waterway when they speed over it on a towering interstate highway bridge. . . .

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