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The Road

by John Ehle

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 <DIV> "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 this place, people, and past in a fully realized novel."—Wilma Dykeman "The Road is a strong novel by one of our most distinguished authors. Muscular, vivid, and pungent, it is broad in historical scope and profound in its human sympathies. We welcome its return with warm pleasure."—Fred Chappell Originally published in 1967, The Road  is epic historical fiction at its best. At the novel's center is Weatherby Wright, a railroad builder who launches an ambitious plan to link the highlands of western North Carolina with the East. As a native of the region, Wright knows what his railway will mean to the impoverished settlers. But to accomplish his grand undertaking he must conquer Sow Mountain, "a massive monolith of earth, rock, vegetation and water, an elaborate series of ridges which built on one another to the top." Wright's struggle to construct the railroad—which requires tall trestles crossing deep ravines and seven tunnels blasted through shale and granite—proves to be much more than an engineering challenge. There is opposition from a child evangelist, who preaches that the railroad is the work of the devil, and there is a serious lack of funds, which forces Wright to use convict labor. How Wright confronts these challenges and how the  mountain people respond to the changes the railroad brings to their lives make for powerfully compelling reading. The Author: A native of Asheville, North Carolina, John Ehle has written seventeen novels and works of nonfiction. His books include The Land Breakers, The Journey of August King, The Winter People, and Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Among the honors he has received are the Lillian Smith Prize and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award. </DIV>
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This Day And Time - A Critical Edition

by Anne W. Armstrong

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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 jobs in town. With lyrical descriptions of the landscape and careful, if archaic, use of dialect, Armstrong explores both timeless and contemporaneous themes, including the impact of industrialization, the deep connection between mountaineers and their land, the roles and victimization of women, and the cycle of life through the changing seasons. Agrarian critic Donald Davidson called it "as true a novel of the mountains as has been written." For this new edition of Armstrong’s work, editor Linda Behrend has written a critical introduction that discusses these literary themes and other components of the text,including biographical information, an analysis of Armstrong’s style and technique, and connections to other literary works of the time. An extensive bibliography includes archival and primary sources, book reviews from This Day and Time’s original appearance in 1930, reviews of stage adaptations of the book, and sources that shed light on its unique linguistic style. Almost a century after This Day and Time was first published, this edition offers both an engaging narrative and an insightful study for a new generation of readers.
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Horace Kephart - Writings

by George Frizzell e Mae Miller Claxton

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 Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century. This book dives into the full range of his writings to shed light on Kephart's classic image as a storyteller and practical guide to the Smokies.
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Hawk'S Nest - A Novel

by Hubert Skidmore

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 Appalachian Echoes Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co. to pull the book from publication after only a few hundred copies had appeared. Now the Appalachian Echoes series makes Hawk’s Nest available to a new generation of readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West Virginia is “tunnelitis,” or silicosis, a disease which killed at least seven hundred workers—probably many more—a large number of them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore’s roman à clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna, kind waitress Lessie Lee, and “hobos” Jim Martin, “Long” Legg, and Owl Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse.
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The Making Of An American - The Autobiography Of A Hungarian Immigrant, Appalachian Entrepreneur, And Oss Officer

by Martin Himler

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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. Himler's autobiography tells in his own words his life story as it evolves into the American dream.
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Well-Nigh Reconstructed - A Political Novel

by Brinsley Matthews

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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 societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for the presidency.
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Lee'S Last Casualty - The Life And Letters Of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry

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Well-Nigh Reconstructed - A Political Novel

by Brinsley Matthews

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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 societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for the presidency.
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King Of The Moonshiners - Lewis R. Redmond In Fact And Fiction

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Their Ancient Grudge

by Harry Kroll

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 First published in 1946, Harry Kroll's portrayal of the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud is seen through the eyes of six women of the two families. This book stands as the last major treatment of this iconic sliver of American culture completed before the story struggle was examined and reinterpreted by a later generation of historians.
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A Handbook To Appalachia - An Introduction To The Region

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Miss Minerva And William Green Hill

by Frances Boyd Calhoun

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 Short excerpt: When she again looked in on him he was fast asleep a rosy flush on his babyish tearstained cheek his red lips half parted his curly head pillowed on his arm and close against his soft young throat there nestled the left hind foot of a rabbit.
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Victims - A True Story Of The Civil War

by Phillip Shaw Paludan

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Holy Boldness - Women Preachers' Autobiographies

by Susie C. Stanley

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Flannery O'Connor - A Life

by Jean W. Cash

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In The Vineyard - Working In African American Studies

by Perry A. Hall

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Little X - Growing Up In The Nation Of Islam

by Sonsyrea Tate

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Hawk'S Nest - A Novel

by Hubert Skidmore

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Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey - Autobiography And Letters

by J G M Ramsey

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 Born in 1796, James Gettys McGready Ramsey was a man of broad talents who left a permanent imprint on Tennessee. Written in the 1870s and originally published by the Tennessee Historical Commission in 1954, Ramsey's autobiography focuses mainly on the home front during the war years.
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Prisoners Of Myth - The Leadership Of The Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990

by Erwin C. Hargrove

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Fool'S Parade

by Davis Grubb

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Rending Of Virginia - A History

by Granville Davisson Hall

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Southern Mountain Republicans - 1865-1900

by Gordon B Mckinney

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