Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

Growing Up Hard in Harlan County by Jones, G. C.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780813115214.

G.C. "Red" Joness classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.