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Cades Cove : the life and death of a southern Appalachian community, 1818-1937 / Durwood Dunn.

Title
Cades Cove : the life and death of a southern Appalachian community, 1818-1937 / Durwood Dunn.
Author
Dunn, Durwood, 1943-
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1988.

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Description
xvi, 319 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, the author sketches the early pioneers, their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggles to survive and prosper in this isolated mountain community, now within the confines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In moving detail this book brings to life an isolated mountain community, its struggle to survive, and the tragedy of its demise." -- Provided by publisher.
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Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Cades Cove (Tenn.) > Economic conditions
  • Cades Cove (Tenn.) > History
  • Cades Cove (Tenn.) > Social conditions
  • Community life > Appalachian Region, Southern
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-307) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Settlement and early history. -- The impact of the wilderness. -- The market economy. -- Religion and the churches. -- The Civil War. -- The folk culture. -- Family life and social customs. -- Government, law, and politics. -- Progressivism and prohibition. -- Death by eminent domain.
ISBN
  • 0870495542 (pbk. : alk paper)
  • 0870495593 (pbk. : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^^87018212^
OCLC
16130800
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library