Our Southern Highlanders

from the back cover:
During the more than sixty years since it was published, this book has been the standard by which all other books on the southern mountain region are judged. From his years of living in the primeval wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains, the author produced a book that is at once historical, sociological, and autobiographical. With a vigorous prose style and a total lack of sentimentality, he skillfully conveys to the reader what it was actually like to have lived in this untamed country and to have known these hearty mountaineers and heard them talk and laugh. Now, when the nation's attention is being directed to the southern mountains,  it is appropriate that this American classic is again available, so that a new generation can rediscover the strengths and traditions of the people who have made the Southern Appalachians their homeland since the nation's early years.

softcover, 474 pages
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