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FULTON, KY. (pop. 4,800), tree-lined streets, courthouse in square, frequently called Kentucky's "southernmost city" because of location on Tennessee state line, plantation tradition, Deep South accents. Named for Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton but grew up around important, longtime Illinois Central Railroad junction; lately pressing industrialization campaign-WE WANT INDUSTRY...
Little Rock grew by cotton culture and by steamboat glamour-creaking wharves piled high with cotton bales for loading on shallow-draft paddle-wheelers such as Reindeer, Cinderella and Spy-and Little Rock seceded along with Arkansas and the Old South from the Union in 1861. Two years later Little Rock was captured by the Union Army without a fight, set about treating the Union men courteously. And when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader...
...chiefly concerned with the Crop-leighs, who move through the wilderness like giants and mostly come to ends both brobdingnagian and foul. The first Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly...
Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...
...only other resident of Statuary Hall who qualifies as an artist (he painted portraits before he developed the steamboat...