The Appalachians: America's first and last frontier
edited by Mari-Lynn Evans, Holly George-Warren, and Robert Santelli with Tom Robertson
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2004]
- Copyright:
- ©2004
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- Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The first frontier
- The land / Bill Richardson
- The landscape of the Southern Appalachians / T. Addison Richards
- Wild thing : the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest / Ted Olson
- The mountain melting pot : Appalachia's diverse ethnic and racial groups / Ted Olson
- Appalachia's Scots-Irish ancestry / John Trew
- The Civil War in Appalachia / Gordon B. McKinney
- Storytelling in Appalachia / Judy Prozzillo Byers
- pt. 2. Feuds, coal, white lightning, and good ol' mountain music
- The Great Mountain Feud / Tom Robertson
- Appalachian myths and the legacy of coal / Ronald L. Lewis
- Moonshine on the mountain / Tom Robertson
- The Bristol sessions / Charles Wolfe
- The story of my family : the Carter family / Rita Forrester
- Falling in love with the Carters / Johnny Cash
- pt. 3. Boom or bust
- A hillbilly timeline / Holly George-Warren
- Discoveries of the people : an introduction to the music of Appalachia / Paul Burch
- A West Virginia life / Robert C. Byrd
- Blue Kentucky girl / Martha Hume
- Readin', writin', and Route 21 : the road from West Virginia to Ohio / David Giffels
- My West Virginia / Alan B. Mollohan
- pt. 4. Memories : keeping the spirit in the modern world
- The trunk in the attic / Gary Carden
- Black Mountain breakdown / Lee Smith
- Killing our hills : the devastation of mountaintop removal / Vivian Stockman
- Fighting for my Appalachian home / Julia Bonds
- Religion in Appalachia : examples of the diversity / Howard Dorgan
- Preaching to the chickens / Gary Carden
- The Jolo Church of the Lord Jesus / Shannon Bell
- The picture man / Shelby Lee Adams
- The quare gene / Tony Earley
- Full circle / Edwin Sweeney
- The train passes through but doesn't stop / Jason Ringenberg.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- F106 .A59 2004
- ISBNs:
- 1400061865
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2004041162
- OCLC Numbers:
- 54007067