Cover; Slender IS THE Thread; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Country Lawyers; 2. Slender Is the Thread; 3. The Ultimate Judge; 4. The Courts of the Squires; 5. Order in the Court!; 6. The Little Kingdom; 7. Politics Kentucky Style; 8. Buried Alive; 9. Immigrants in the Mines; 10. A Man of Honor; 11. Old Carl Brought Him Out; 12. Lawyers for the People
Summary
In a supplement to his The American Language, H.L. Mencken encapsulated the early history of Kentucky: ""What is now Kentucky was the first region beyond the mountains to be settled. Pioneers began to invade it before the Revolution, and by 1782 it had more than 30,000 population. It was originally a part of Virginia, and the effort to organize it as an independent state took a great deal of politicking.""Kentuckian and lawyer Harry M. Caudill grew up in the coal fields of Letcher County. His book Slender is the Thread reflects the history of a state whose citizens had to labor for t
