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A popular history of western North Carolina : mountains, heroes & hootnoggers / Rob Neufeld.

Neufeld, Rob. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781596291836
  • Physical Description: 126 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Charleston, S.C. : History Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
The author has graciously donated our circulation copy.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-126).
Formatted Contents Note:
PART I: THE CHEROKEE -- Putting a human face on our region's ancient settlers -- Reviewing the myths -- As the bear goes, so go we -- A digression: the bear hunters of Dillingham -- Strawberries in legend -- Quest for Cherokee history -- Emissaries and speculators -- Lois Queen and modern times -- PART II: PIONEERS AND FARMERS -- A bed warmer provides the link to an 1830s winter -- A washboard tells a story -- You can't take the Crockett out of Fairview -- German settlers -- Hand-forged nails and God in cornfields -- The history of Haw Creek -- PART III: THE CIVIL WAR -- How Unionist were mountain people? -- A Henderson County perspective -- The Civil War is waged in print -- The Cold Mountain spotlight -- The Shelton Laurel massacre: another story with multiple accounts -- A woman's anguish, an aristocrat's fate -- Last Confederate victory-in Swannanoa Gap -- PART IV: LEGENDARY WOMEN -- Lillian Exum Clement: first female legislator -- The girls of Candler -- Girl of the lumber camps -- "Lots of love from BB": the wartime letters of an Asheville nanny -- Trainmen's wives -- Growing up Black in Black Mountain -- PART V: TALES OF ADVERSITY AND TRIUMPH -- L.B. Jackson: tower builder -- Fellowship and fashion gave Jewish merchants a foundation -- Nina Simone: Tryon jazz singer -- Integration makes friends of engineers -- The flourishing African American music scene -- Exodus to Arden -- Who is Festus? -- West Asheville businessman's life inspires a ballad.
Subject:
Frontier and pioneer life > North Carolina.
Cherokee Indians > North Carolina > History.
North Carolina > History.
North Carolina > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

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