The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia (Classic Reprint)
The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia (Classic Reprint)

Author: William P. Blake

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780282606312

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Excerpt from The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia The principal gold region of Georgia is confined to a belt from one to five miles in width, stretching in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, parallel with the Blue Ridge, through Habersham, White and Lumpkin counties, and be yond into Alabama. The region of country including these mines was originally owned and inhabited by the Cherokee Indians, but there is reason to believe that they were entirely ignorant of the existence of gold in their soil. Their orna ments were of silver, and gold ornaments were not known among them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Beyond the Mountains
Beyond the Mountains

Author: Drew A. Swanson

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0820353973

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Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.