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On Earth's Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs
by Tim Barnwell  Publisher Comments Author of the much-celebrated "Face of Appalachia," Tim Barnwell once again turns an intelligent and compassionate eye toward rural America. For over twenty-five years Tim Barnwell has explored the southern Appalachian region, documenting the farm...
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Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mtns
by David C Hsiung Publisher Comments Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must...
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Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Women in Southern Culture)
by Linda Scot Derosier Publisher Comments In her memoir of growing up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a professor of psychology at Rocky Mountain College in Montana is unabashedly honest about and proud of her Appalachian heritage, chronicling her life with honesty, wit, and insight. 51...
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High Mountains Rising : Appalachia in Place and Time (04 Edition)
by Richard A. Straw Publisher Comments This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen's High Mountains Rising provides a clear, systematic, and engaging overview of the Appalachian timeline, its...
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
by Noah Adams Publisher Comments With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold--quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey...
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Eula
by E C Mantz Synopsis From small town Virginia to San Francisco to Dickensian orphanage, E. C. Mantz traces the path of her past in this intrepid memoir. By the time she was sixteen, Eula Cress had lived the kind of life movies are made of. She hitchhiked across the country...
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Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940
by Jane Becker Publisher Comments The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in America's folk heritage, as Americans began to enthusiastically collect, present, market, and consume the nation's folk traditions. Examining one of this century's most prominent...
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All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region
by David E Whisnant Publisher Comments In the American imagination, the word "Appalachia" designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished romantic region of the American mind. David...
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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
by John Obrien Synopsis "At Home in the Heart of Appalachia" is a blend of memoir, history, and reportage that explores the difficult relationship between an estranged father and son, as well as the effect that being "Appalachian" has had on both....
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
by Jeff Biggers Publisher Comments From the first declaration of independence to the beginnings of folk music, literature, and poetry, Biggers reveals how so many of our nation's basic freedoms and founding moments grew out of the Appalachians....
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A History of Appalachia
by Richard Drake Synopsis For more than twenty years historians have expressed the critical need for a single-volume history of Appalachia. Responding to this demand, Richard Drake has skillfully and confidently woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience...
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by Dennis Covington 
Publisher Comments On assignment in Alabama to cover a murder trial, New York Times journalist Dennis Covington discovered the bizarre, mysterious, ultimately irresistible world of holiness snake handling. As he explored the lives and beliefs of the poor, white Southerners...
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Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
by Gerald Milnes Synopsis The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny...
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College for Appalachia
by P David Searles Publisher Comments Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was a New England woman with a mission in life. In 1916 she settled on Caney Creek in Eastern Kentucky, determined to bring higher education to this remote corner of Appalachia. The school she founded, now Alice Lloyd College...
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Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900
by John Benhart Synopsis In the fall of 1865, two Union officers stationed in East Tennessee during the Civil War--Hiram Chamberlain and John Wilder--decided to stay in the South to pursue business careers. They recognized potential in the untapped resources they had seen during...
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The Appalachian Trail Reader
by David Emblidge Publisher Comments The longest continuously marked footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail spans 2,140 miles across fourteen states--from Georgia to Maine--and travels through vastly different natural and social environments. Now, in a lively and eye-opening...
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Everything in Its Path
by Kai T Erikson
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Up from the Mines: Images of the Appalachian Mining Experience
by James B Goode
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A Season on the Appalachian Trail
by Lynn Setzer
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Images of Appalachian Coalfields
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