For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the
central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was,
and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest sources of
economic growth. It is also a source of nostalgia for a people devoted
to tradition, a characteristic that has significantly influenced
Kentucky's culture, sometimes to the detriment of education and
development.
As timely now as when it was first published, Thomas D. Clark's classic
history of agrarianism prepares readers for a new era that promises to
bring rapid change to the land and the people of Kentucky.