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1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Cover title. |
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"This work, originally published by the Appalachian Consortium Press, has been reissued in an edition unaltered from its original publication. Open access editions of this and other Appalachian Consortium Press publications are available"--Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-451) and index. |
| Contents |
Author's preface / Ora Blackmun -- Introduction / Cratis Williams -- Stagecoach days at Sherrill's Inn -- The land of mountains -- Eden is discovered -- Two races meet -- Along the trading paths -- Lightnings flash and thunders roll -- The lull between storms -- A new flag for Western North Carolina -- East-West tug of war -- In search of beauty: an interlude -- With their goods and chattels -- Weaving a homespun pattern of living -- Boundaries and Western leadership -- Gold in the hills and on the highways -- Light and shade in the mountains -- The crack of doom in the mountains -- More government for Western North Carolina -- The lure of the mountains -- Whigs in the mountains -- War in the land -- War comes to the hills -- The rebirth of a state -- Long is the night -- Dawn breaks over the mountains. |
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Print version record. |
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North Carolina -- History.
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North Carolina, Western -- History.
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Caroline du Nord -- Histoire.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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North Carolina https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqW4fbp3DFmdyrBFFbfMP
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Western North Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Williams, Cratis D.
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| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Blackmun, Ora. Western North Carolina, its mountains and its people to 1880. Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, ©1977 (DLC) 76053030 (OCoLC)2646301 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Blackmun, Ora. Western North Carolina. [Boone, North Carolina] : Appalachian State University, [2017] 1469641364 (OCoLC)994369483 |
| ISBN |
9781469641386 (electronic bk.) |
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1469641380 (electronic bk.) |
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1469641364 |
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9781469641362 |
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AU@ 000061349384 |
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GBVCP 1014945593 |
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