Circling Windrock Mountain

Name: Circling Windrock Mountain
Brand: University of Tennessee Press
SKU: 9781572330382
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Two Hundred Years Appalachia

Autor: Augusta Grove Bell

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Around 1800, a Revolutionary War veteran named Micajah Frost came to the Cumberland Mountains of Eas...

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Autor

Augusta Grove Bell

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

336

EAN

9781572330382

ISBN

9781572330382

Enbook ID

06316833

Editura

University of Tennessee Press

Greutate

544

Dimensiuni

156 x 229 x 26

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Around 1800, a Revolutionary War veteran named Micajah Frost came to the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee and cleared a portion of virgin forest in what is now Anderson County. Others followed, and eventually this small area was dotted with settlers. In the years since, those settlers and their descendants witnessed the strife of the Civil War, the rise of the coal-mining and logging industries, the coming of the railroad, and countless smaller upheavals. Drawn largely from the memories of longtime residents, this delightful book revisits two hundred years of history in the communities surrounding what was locally called Windrock Mountain.The stories Augusta Bell recounts take us from Oliver Springs -- which had its origins in the grist mill Moses Winters built in 1799 and which later became a "boom town" with a fashionable resort hotel -- to places like New River Valley, Graves Gap, and Duncan Flats. She depicts the everyday lives of the mountain people as well as the extraordinary events that sometimes shattered those lives -- such as the Coal Creek War of 1891-92, in which miners squared off against state militia, and the two mine explosions that came a few years later, sealing up 268 men deep inside the mountain. Bell also tells of happier times, as when the famous Windrock Mine opened above Oliver Springs in 1904.Tapping a rich lode of folklore and oral tradition, along with other historical sources, Circling Windrock Mountain offers a view of Appalachian life that defies old stereotypes. Far from being static, the communities described here saw an amazing variety of changes to which they adapted with resilience and ingenuity.

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