Early Travels in the Tennessee County, 1540-1800
Author: Samuel Cole Williams
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 540
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Author: Samuel Cole Williams
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Cole Williams
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Cole Williams
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Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Cole Williams
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kristofer Ray
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1621901033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than eight million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land. The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years, and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as natural forces have. In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce presents the most balanced account available of the development of the park. He tells how park supporters set about raising money to buy the land--often from resistant timber companies--and describes the fierce infighting between wilderness advocates and tourism boosters over the shape the park would take. He also discloses the unfortunate human cost of the park's creation: the displacement of the area's inhabitants. Pierce is especially insightful regarding the often-neglected history of the park since 1945. He looks at the problems caused by roadbuilding, tree blight, and air pollution that becomes trapped in the mountains' natural haze. He also provides astute assessments of the Cades Cove restoration, the Fontana Lake road construction, and other recent developments involving the park. Full of outstanding photographs and boasting a breadth of coverage unmatched in other books of its kind, The Great Smokies will help visitors better appreciate the wilderness experience they have sought. Pierce's account makes us more aware of humanity's long interaction with the land while capturing the spirit of those idealistic environmentalists who realized their vision to protect it. The Author: Daniel S. Pierce teaches in the department of history and the humanities program at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and is a contributor to The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Birdwell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2004-12-24
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780813123097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
Author: Thomas McDowell Nelson Lewis
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780870498640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese two volumes look at the excavation of the thirteen archaeological sites of the Chickamauga Basin in the 1930s. These reports were the first comprehensive descriptions of the Native American cultures that lived near what is now Chattanooga before and at the time of European contact.
Author: James Patrick
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780870496318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David C. Hsiung
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0813161525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community. Hsiung focuses on the mountainous area of upper East Tennessee, tracing this area's development from the first settlementin the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Through his examination, he identifies the different ways in which the region's inhabitants were connected to or separated from other peoples and places. Using an interdisciplinary framework, he analyzes geographical and sociocultural isolation from a number of perspectives, including transportation networks, changing economy, population movement, and topography. This provocative work will stimulate future studies of early Appalachia and serve as a model for the analysis of regional cultures.