Book
The Appalachians : America's first and last frontier
Record details
- ISBN: 1400061865
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Physical Description:
print
xxxii, 256 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2004.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 ; Mountain melting pot : Appalachia's diverse ethnic and racial groups / Ted Olson -- Appalachia's Scots-Irish ancestry / John Trew -- 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. |
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| Subject: | Oral history Appalachian Region Civilization Appalachian Region Pictorial works Appalachian Region Biography |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | K 975 A646 2004 (Text) | 33126010077687 | KY Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Covington Branch | K 975 A646 2004 (Text) | 33126010077729 | KY Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | K 975 A646 2004 (Text) | 33126010077711 | KY Nonfiction | Available | - |