num_pages: 190
description: G.C. "Red" Jones's 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.
language: English
title: Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
titlecomplete: Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
ratings_count: 102
publisher: University Press of Kentucky