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Author : Thomas George Walton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History written by Thomas George Walton and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas George Walton
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Total Pages : 89 pages
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Download or read book Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History written by Thomas George Walton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas George Walton
Publisher : Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780893085384
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History written by Thomas George Walton and published by Southern Historical Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Col. Thomas George Walton, Pub. 1984, Reprinted 2016, 100 pages, NEW Index, ISBN #0-89308-538-3. The articles comprising the first part of this book, page 5 through 67, were written in 1894 and were published in the old Morganton Herald. Those articles found on pages 68 through 89 were copies from manuscripts of Col. Walton; these are now in the possession of his granddaughter, Mrs. Harry Boggs (1924). This book contains sketches of the following pioneers in Burke County history: Avery, Ballew, Bechtter, Bouchelle, Bowman, Bradshaw, Brittain, Caldwell, Carson, Collins, Connelly, Corpening, Dobson, Duckworth, Erwin, Estes, Forney, Graham, Greenlee, Hemphill, Henderson, Herne, Hildebrand (2), Lenoir, McDowell, McEntire, Miller, Morrison, Murphy, Newland, Patton, Perkin, Person, Picken, Rutherford, Stevelies, Tates, Walker, Walton. A New Index was created for this volume.
Author : Christopher Blake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439661685
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
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Author : David D. Fagan
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Total Pages : 618 pages
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Author : Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813130174
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Moonshiners and Prohibitionists written by Bruce E. Stewart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians—was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.
Author : Stephen Szabados
Publisher : Stephen Szabados
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Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book The Descendants of Thomas McDowell in Colonial America written by Stephen Szabados and published by Stephen Szabados. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the descendants of Thomas McDowell, who came to the American colonies in the 1700s, and their impact on American History. The different branches lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, and many family members made significant contributions to the growth of the colonies. The new homes of the McDowell Family were on the frontier. Life there was challenging as they had to clear their land and build cabins. They also joined the local militias to protect themselves against Indian attacks. Even though Indians killed some, most survived and, in many cases, flourished. The McDowell family had many members who fought in the American Revolution to establish our freedoms. Did you know Charles McDowell, “Pleasant Garden Joe” McDowell, and "Quaker Meadows Joe" McDowell were officers in the North Carolina Militia who had a significant role in defeating the British at a turning point in the American Revolution. They are in history books. The McDowell family’s contribution to American History goes beyond our three heroes in the North Carolina militia. Read the pages of this book to discover who the other heroes are. One may be your ancestor. The book offers a fascinating overview of colonial American life. Even if you don't have McDowell ancestors, you may find a connection to your colonial roots.
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Total Pages : 605 pages
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Author : William S. Powell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867128
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of North Carolina Biography written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855034
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The Heart of Confederate Appalachia written by John C. Inscoe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the
Author : Brinsley Matthews
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337370
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Well-Nigh Reconstructed written by Brinsley Matthews and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson’s work was especially notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant’s bid for the presidency. A product of Pearson’s perception that northern Reconstruction policies had devastated his native North Carolina, the book set in motion a genre of politically motivated novels that would culminate near the turn of the twentieth century with Thomas Nelson Page’s Red Rock and later Thomas Dixon Jr.’s infamous The Clansman. Though set in Virginia and Alabama, it is clear that Well-Nigh Reconstructed drew heavily on Pearson’s own experiences and that it was conceived as a direct response to A Fool’s Errand, a pro-Reconstruction novel by fellow North Carolinian Albion Tourgée. Echoing Pearson’s own disillusionment with the Radical Republicans, the novel’s protagonist, Archie Moran, comes to see Radical Reconstruction as an attempt to turn the South into a carbon copy of the North, and through a series of encounters involving corrupt carpetbaggers, greedy politicians, and the Klan trials of the late 1870s, Moran grows weary of politics altogether and resigns his Republican Party affiliation. For Pearson and his doppelganger, Moran, Reconstruction became a vast breeding ground for corruption. Featuring an extensive introduction by historian Paul D. Yandle, who sets the political and regional scene of Reconstruction North Carolina, this reissue of Well-Nigh Reconstructed will shed new light on the ways in which sectionalism, regionalism, and the embrace of white supremacy tended to undermine the recently reconstituted Union among Appalachian residents.
Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195033106
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)
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Author : Richard Douglas Spence
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826504000
Total Pages : 699 pages
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Author : John Inscoe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129613
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South written by John Inscoe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities. John C. Inscoe has spent much of his scholarly career exploring the social, economic and political significance of slavery and slaveholding in the mountain South and the complex nature of the region’s wartime loyalties, and the brutal guerrilla warfare and home front traumas that stemmed from those divisions. The essays here embrace both facts and fictions related to those issues, often conveyed through intimate vignettes that focus on individuals, families, and communities, keeping the human dimension at the forefront of his insights and analysis. Drawing on the memories, memoirs, and other testimony of slaves and free blacks, slaveholders and abolitionists, guerrilla warriors, invading armies, and the highland civilians they encountered, Inscoe considers this multiplicity of perspectives and what is revealed about highlanders’ dual and overlapping identities as both a part of, and distinct from, the South as a whole. He devotes attention to how the truths derived from these contemporary voices were exploited, distorted, reshaped, reinforced, or ignored by later generations of novelists, journalists, filmmakers, dramatists, and even historians with differing agendas over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His cast of characters includes John Henry, Frederick Law Olmsted and John Brown, Andrew Johnson and Zebulon Vance, and those who later interpreted their stories—John Fox and John Ehle, Thomas Wolfe and Charles Frazier, Emma Bell Miles and Harry Caudill, Carter Woodson and W. J. Cash, Horace Kephart and John C. Campbell, even William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Their work and that of many others have contributed much to either our understanding—or misunderstanding—of nineteenth century Appalachia and its place in the American imagination.
Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499333
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Mountain Masters written by John C. Inscoe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region - one so alienated and isolated from other parts of the South that, with the onset of the Civil War, highlanders opposed both secession and Confederate war efforts. In a multifaceted challenge to these basic assumptions about Appalachian society in the mid-nineteenth century, John Inscoe reveals new variations on the diverse motives and rationales that drove Southerners, particularly in the Upper South, out of the Union. Mountain Masters vividly portrays the wealth, family connections, commercial activities, and governmental power of the slaveholding elite that controlled the social, economic, and political development of western North Carolina. In examining the role played by slavery in shaping the political consciousness of mountain residents, the book also provides fresh insights into the nature of southern class interaction, community structure, and master-slave relationships.
Author : Abraham J. Baughman
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Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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