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Proving Ground : Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes /

The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slavishak, Edward Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Expert vision : J. Horace McFarland in the woods
  • Terrestrial and human : Benton MacKaye's mountain work
  • The stern grip of circumstance : hiking the Smoky Mountains, 1920-1940
  • A priceless asset : Marion Pearsall in isolation
  • William Gedney and the look of coal country.