Preface



J. Stoddard Johnston, for the examination and criticism
of the manuscript, and to my sister, Carolyn Verhoeff, for
valuable assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.
I am also under obligations to Professor Franklin H.
Giddings of Columbia University, whose "Inductive
Sociology" has been most useful in the collection and
arrangement of data.
   Various librarians have made the work possible, par-
ticularly Mr. Frank Kavanaugh, State Librarian at Frank-
fort. I have received much information from Senator
J. Bosworth, from the editors of "Thousandsticks" and
of the " Harlan Enterprise," and from Miss May Stone
and Miss Katherine Pettitt.
                                   MARY VERHOEFF.

  Louisville, Kentucky.
        July 10. 1911.



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