26. Lost Island

Title: Lost Island
Author: James Norman Hall
Year Published: 1944
Year Printed: 1944

Date Acquired: May 26, 2016
Where Purchased: Berkeley Springs Books, Berkeley Springs, WV
Price Paid: $1

Read Status: Read (December 6, 2016)

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25. Rivers of America: The Tennessee, Volume II - The New River: Civil War to TVA

Title: Rivers of America: The Tennessee, Volume II - The New River: Civil War to TVA
Author: Donald Davidson
Year Published: 1948
Year Printed: 1948

Date Acquired: Christmas 2015
Where Purchased: Gift
Price Paid: Gift

Read Status: Read (October 28, 2016)

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24. The Chiangs of China

Title: The Chiangs of China
Author: Elmer T. Clark
Year Published: 1943
Year Printed: 1943

Date Acquired: December 16, 2015
Where Purchased: City Center Galley & Books, Fayetteville, NC
Price Paid: $7

Read Status: Read (October 18, 2016)

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23. Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier

Title: Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier
Author: Edward Hungerford
Year Published: 1949
Year Printed: 1949

Date Acquired: November 14, 2015
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $12

Read Status: Read (October 15, 2016)

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22. In Search of Two Characters: Some Intimate Aspects of Napoleon and his Son

Title: In Search of Two Characters: Some Intimate Aspects of Napoleon and his Son
Author: Dormer Creston
Year Published: 1945
Year Printed: 1945

Date Acquired: October 14, 2015
Where Purchased: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price Paid: 16 Euros

Read Status: Read (February 16, 2016)

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21. Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State

Title: Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published:1939
Year Printed: 1947

Date Acquired: October 6, 2015
Where Purchased: Rhino Booksellers Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (January 28, 2016)

Notes/Thoughts

• Has book jacket and map in pocket of back cover
• American Guide Series
• Unfortunately, as reading I've found it's missing a lot of pages. At first it didn't really bother me because it was just the photo insert pages, but then I found the page with the Lexington map missing and that page had text on the back, which was particularly annoying in that it was the rest of the information on the Mary Todd Lincoln home.
• With all the mentions of the Big Sandy River, the song "Boatin' Up Sandy River" got stuck in my head reading this. (I'm familiar with it from the Bourbon Barrel Congress version.)
• p. 423 - "There are so many thrilling stories and legends of Daniel Boone’s adventures that the simplicity of the man has been quite obscured….Asked once if he ever got lost, he hesitated a moment; “not lost, so to speak,” he said, “but sometimes bewildered." - But is this quote about being bewildered and not lost a legend or not?

20. Home to the Hermatige

Title: Home to the Hermitage
Author: Alfred Leland Crabb
Year Published:1948
Year Printed: 1948

Date Acquired: October 6, 2015
Where Purchased: Rhino Booksellers Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN
Price Paid: $15

Read Status: Read (December 30, 2015)

Notes/Thoughts

• I've been trying to find Dinner at Belmont to complete the trilogy, but I only spotted Breakfast at the Hermitage here. I had saved this book on my wish list, too, though. I also almost bought another one of his books they had, but he wrote that one in the 1950s and I also found a Federal Writer's Project book to buy here making it three books this Nashville trip already.