Western North Carolina : its mountains and its people to 1880 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blackmun, Ora (Author)
Other Authors: Williams, Cratis D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Boone, North Carolina] : Appalachian State University, [2017]
Subjects:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
North Carolina > History.
North Carolina, Western > History.
Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
North Carolina.
Western North Carolina.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Author's preface / Ora Blackmun
  • Introduction / Cratis Williams
  • Stagecoach days at Sherrill's Inn
  • The land of mountains
  • Eden is discovered
  • Two races meet
  • Along the trading paths
  • Lightnings flash and thunders roll
  • The lull between storms
  • A new flag for Western North Carolina
  • East-West tug of war
  • In search of beauty: an interlude
  • With their goods and chattels
  • Weaving a homespun pattern of living
  • Boundaries and Western leadership
  • Gold in the hills and on the highways
  • Light and shade in the mountains
  • The crack of doom in the mountains
  • More government for Western North Carolina
  • The lure of the mountains
  • Whigs in the mountains
  • War in the land
  • War comes to the hills
  • The rebirth of a state
  • Long is the night
  • Dawn breaks over the mountains.

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