Appalachian Echoes – serie
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Road
Av John Ehle
Häftad, 1998
380 kr
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"In The Road John Ehle's skill as a storyteller brings an early episode of road building in the North Carolina mountains to rich and vivid life. Hardship and humor, suffering and dreams are the balance for survival in a landscape that makes harsh demands on its intruders. Ehle lets us experience …
Appalachian Frontier
America'S First Surge Westward
Häftad, 2003
399 kr
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John Anthony Caruso’s The Appalachian Frontier, first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region’s history from its earliest seventeenth-century scouting parties to the admission of Tennessee to the Union in …
Hawk's Nest
A Novel
Häftad, 2004
380 kr
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Appalachian EchoesThomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor“Very real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for the unfortunate but a well told and honest story.” —New York Times“Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from inside the belly of the beast. His …
Making of an American
The Autobiography of a Hungarian Immigrant, Appalachian Entrepreneur, and OSS Officer
Av Martin Himler, Cathy Cassady Corbin
Häftad, 2018
411 kr
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Martin Himler emigrated from Hungary to America in 1907, and he arrived in New York City with no money and no plan other than to find work. From these impoverished beginnings, Himler persevered to become a self-made new American. As a coal mining entrepreneur, he established the Himler Coal …
Horace Kephart
Writings
Av Mae Miller Claxton, George Frizzell
Häftad, 2020
575 kr
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Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky …
This Day and Time
A Critical Edition
Av Anne W. Armstrong, Linda Behrend
Häftad, 2025
316 kr
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Considered by many scholars to be the first novel to realistically depict the Appalachian region and its people, Anne Armstrong's This Day and Time (1930) follows a resilient young woman named Ivy, deserted by her husband and raising a young son in the mountains after having tried working factory …
Lure of the Great Smokies
Av Robert Lindsay Mason, Anne Mason Winsauer
Häftad, 2027
280 kr
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Robert Lindsay Mason's The Lure of the Great Smokies offers a remarkable portrait of the Tennessee mountains during the critical years preceding the establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The book captures a region in transition, documenting both the natural beauty of the …
Well-Nigh Reconstructed
A Political Novel
Av Brinsley Matthews, Paul Yandle
Häftad, 2010
313 kr
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In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was especially notable …
