# The Quest for a Lost Race

Author: Pickett, Thomas Edward, 1841-1913

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47627

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Quest+for+a+Lost+Race+Pickett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The native Kentuckian has a deep and abiding affection for the "Old Commonwealth" which gave him birth. It is as passionate a sentiment, too--and some might add, as irrational--as the love of a Frenchman for his native France. But it is an innocent idolatry in both, and both are entitled to the indulgent consideration of alien critics whose racial instincts are less susceptible and whose emotional nature is under better control. Here and there, a captious martinet who has been wrestling, mayhap, with a refractory recruit from Kentucky, will tell you that the average Kentuckian is scarcely more "educable" than his own horse; that he is stubborn, irascible, and balky; far from "bridle-wise,...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-quest-for-a-lost-race-47627/chapters/17/index.md)