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Book The Land of Saddle bags

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Watt Raine
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-11
  • ISBN : 0813148693
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The Land of Saddle bags written by James Watt Raine and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have "had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified." Originally published in 1924, it was advertised as a "racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure and the delicious humor of vigorously human people." James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, and farming. In a conscious effort to dispel the negative stereotype of the drunken, slothful, gun-toting hillbilly prone to violence, Raine presents positive examples from his own experiences among the region's native inhabitants.

Book The Welsh of Tennessee

Download or read book The Welsh of Tennessee written by D. Eirug Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Samuel Roberts' ill-fated attempt at forming a Welsh colony in Tennessee, others from Wales would help develop the state's fledgling iron and coal industry. This book tells how they became Knoxville's largest employer, started the Dixie Eisteddfod, and got involved in an armed insurrection over the use of convicts in the mines.

Book 100 Trails of the Big South Fork

Download or read book 100 Trails of the Big South Fork written by Russ Manning and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the trails of the Big South Fork plus adjacent national forests and parks. Great for hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders.

Book Trailing Tennessee

Download or read book Trailing Tennessee written by Cory Wheeler Mimms and published by Craigmore Creations. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Eli Sutton begins hiking the Appalachian Trail, a dangerous trek on which he is pursued by park rangers and spirits, to fulfill his dream of reaching Mount Katahdin and carving his initials on the same tree as his father and grandfather.

Book Conquered

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry J. Daniel
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2019-03-05
  • ISBN : 1469649519
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Conquered written by Larry J. Daniel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership. Here, esteemed military historian Larry J. Daniel offers a far richer interpretation. Surpassing previous work that has focused on questions of command structure and the force's fate on the fields of battle, Daniel provides the clearest view to date of the army's inner workings, from top-level command and unit cohesion to the varied experiences of common soldiers and their connections to the home front. Drawing from his mastery of the relevant sources, Daniel's book is a thought-provoking reassessment of an army's fate, with important implications for Civil War history and military history writ large.

Book Ducktown Smoke

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0807834599
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Ducktown Smoke written by and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ducktown Smoke

Book Weird Tennessee

Download or read book Weird Tennessee written by Roger Manley and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Tennessee.

Book Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie

Download or read book Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie written by Courtney Elizabeth Knapp and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that "diasporic placemaking"—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development.

Book All That and a Bag of Chips

Download or read book All That and a Bag of Chips written by Darrien Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a brief excerpt from Been there, done that.

Book Mountain Days

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  • Author : Paul M. Fink
  • Publisher : Western Carolina University, Hunter Library
  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781469651842
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Mountain Days written by Paul M. Fink and published by Western Carolina University, Hunter Library. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, Paul M. Fink published Backpacking Was the Only Way, a memoir of exploration in the Smoky Mountain backcountry that is long out of print. The basis of the book was a journal kept from 1914 to 1938, combined with evocative photographs that Fink compiled into a manuscript he called Mountain Days. The manuscript is now considered to be a unique and insightful first-person account of the region. Containing rare historical accounts of the manways, camps, and cabins once used by adventurers exploring the mountains before the advent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this is the first widely-accessible publication of Mountain Days. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Wise, professor and director of the Great Smoky Mountain Regional Project at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville's John C. Hodges Library. An open access edition of Mountains Days is available from the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.

Book A Bag for Santa

Download or read book A Bag for Santa written by Kendra Esbrook and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jack Daniel s Spirit of Tennessee Cookbook

Download or read book Jack Daniel s Spirit of Tennessee Cookbook written by Lynne Tolley and published by Nelsonword Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich tradition of country cooking, the distinctive taste of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, and the heritage of rural America are all elegantly captured in Jack Daniel's The Spirit of Tennessee Cookbook. Included are more than 350 recipes, stunning full-color photographs, and stories of the people, places, and traditions of Middle Tennessee.

Book Against the Current

Download or read book Against the Current written by Kim Trevathan and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1998 Kim Trevathan summoned his beloved 45-pound German shepherd mix, Jasper, and paddled a canoe down the Tennessee River, an adventure chronicled in Paddling the Tennessee River: A Voyage on Easy Water. Twenty years later, in Against the Current: Paddling Upstream on the Tennessee River, he invites readers on a voyage of light-hearted rumination about time, memory, and change as he paddles the same river in the same boat--but this time going upstream, starting out in early spring instead of late summer. In sparkling prose, Trevathan describes the life of the river before and after the dams, the sometimes daunting condition of its environment, its banks' host of evolving communities--and also the joys and follies of having a new puppy, 65-pound Maggie, for a shipmate. Trevathan discusses the Tennessee River's varied contributions to the cultures that hug its waterway (Kentuckians refer to it as a lake, but Tennesseans call it a river), and the writer's intimate style proves a perfect lens for the passageway from Kentucky to Tennessee to Alabama and back to Tennessee. In choice observations and chance encounters along the route, Trevathan uncovers meaningful differences among the Tennessee Valley's people--and not a few differences in himself, now an older, wiser adventurer. Whether he is struggling to calm his land-loving companion, confronting his body's newfound aches and pains, craving a hard-to-find cheeseburger, or scouting for a safe place to camp for the night, Trevathan perseveres in his quest to reacquaint himself with the river and to discover new things about it. And, owing to his masterful sense of detail, cadence, and narrative craft, Trevathan keeps the reader at the heart of the journey. The Tennessee River is a remarkable landmark, and this text exhibits its past and present qualities with a perspective only Trevathan can provide.

Book Tennessee s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Marsh
  • Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0793320682
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Tennessee s written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tennesse Law

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  • Author : Carole Marsh
  • Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
  • Release : 1997-03
  • ISBN : 0793381312
  • Pages : 71 pages

Download or read book Tennesse Law written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paddling Around Nashville

Download or read book Paddling Around Nashville written by Patty Shultz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outdoor recreation guide book for kayaking and canoeing in Middle Tennessee with maps and directions from Nashville

Book The Battle of Franklin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Marsh
  • Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
  • Release : 1997-02
  • ISBN : 0793378257
  • Pages : 61 pages

Download or read book The Battle of Franklin written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: