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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Blackmun, Ora, author.
Imprint:[Boone, North Carolina] : Appalachian State University, [2017]
Description:1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
North Carolina -- History.
North Carolina, Western -- History.
North Carolina.
Western North Carolina.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11398147
Related Items:Reproduction of (manifestation): Western North Carolina, its mountains and its people to 1880.
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Other authors / contributors:Williams, Cratis D.
ISBN:9781469641386
1469641380
1469641364
9781469641362
Notes:Cover title.
"This work, originally published by the Appalachian Consortium Press, has been reissued in an edition unaltered from its original publication. Open access editions of this and other Appalachian Consortium Press publications are available"--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-451) and index.
Print version record.
Other form:Print version: Blackmun, Ora. Western North Carolina. [Boone, North Carolina] : Appalachian State University, [2017] 1469641364
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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