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High Mountains Rising

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by Richard A. Straw


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  CONTRIBUTORS

  H. TYLER BLETHEN is a professor of history and director of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. He is a coauthor of From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (1983; rev. ed., 1998) and a coeditor of Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish (1997).

  C. CLIFFORD BOYD JR. is a professor of anthropology at Radford University, where he began teaching in 1986 after receiving a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His research interests include Native American cultures of the southeastern United States, anthropological theory, and human skeletal biology.

  RONALD D ELLER is a professor of history and former director of the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky, where he coordinated research on a wide range of Appalachian policy issues including education, health care, economic development, civic leadership, and the environment. He is working on a book tentatively titled Appalachia and the Politics of Development, 1945-Present.

  DAVID C. HSIUNG is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes (1997).

  JOHN C. INSCOE is a professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989), coauthor (with Gordon B. McKinney) of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000), and editor of Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation (2000).

  RONALD L. LEWIS is the Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair in History at West Virginia University. His most recent book is Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880–1920 (1998).

  BILL C. MALONE is a retired professor of history at Tulane University now living in Madison,Wisconsin. He is the author of Country Music, USA (1985), Don’t Get above Your Raisin’: Country Music and the Southern Working Class (2002), and Southern Music/American Music (2003) and the host of a radio show, Back to the Country, on WORT-FM in Madison.

  DEBORAH VANSAU MCCAULEY is a historian of American religions. Her books include Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History (1995), which won the W. D. Weatherford Award, and (with Laura E. Porter, Patricia Parker Brunner, and Warren E. Brunner) Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative (2003).

  GORDON B. MCKINNEY is director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College. He is the author of Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865–1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community (1978) and (with John Inscoe) The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000).

  MICHAEL MONTGOMERY is a professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He has written extensively on British and Irish connections to Appalachian English and is the editor of Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English (2004).

  PHILLIP J. OBERMILLER is a visiting scholar in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati and a fellow at the University of Kentucky’s Appalachian Center. His research focuses on regionalism, migration, and urbanization.

  TED OLSON teaches courses in Appalachian studies and English at East Tennessee State University, where he also serves as director of the Appalachian, Scottish, and Irish Studies Program and as interim director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. He is the author of Blue Ridge Folklife (1998) and the editor of James Still’s From the Mountain, from the Valley: New and Collected Poems (2001).

  PAUL SALSTROM received a Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University and is an associate professor of history at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. He is the author of Appalachia’s Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region’s Economic History, 1/30–1940 (1994).

  RICHARD A. STRAW received a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia and is a professor of history at Radford University, where he has taught since 1981. His research and writing focus on such diverse topics as coalmining, music, food, and photography in Appalachia and issues relating to teaching and learning. He is author of Images of America: Blacksburg (2003).

  MICHAEL ANN WILLIAMS is a professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University. She is the author of Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina (1991) and Great Smoky Mountains Folklife (1995).

  INDEX

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  Acuff, Roy

  adaptability

  Adkins, Minnie

  African Americans; numbers of and racial violence and Reconstruction

  Agee, James

>   Agricultural Adjustment Administration

  alum

  American Folk Festival. See also folk festivals

  Anthology of American Folk Music

  Antiochian Orthodox Church

  Appalachia: definition of environment in exceptionalism of topography of

  Appalachia Inside-Out

  Appalachian enclaves

  Appalachian English

  Appalachian Literature: Critical Essays

  Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)

  Appalachian Regional Development Act (ARDA)

  Appalachian Volunteers (AV)

  Appalshop

  Area Redevelopment Act

  Area Redevelopment Administration (ARA)

  Arnow, Harriette

  Ashley, Clarence “Tom,”

  assimilation

  associations

  Augusta Heritage Center

  Awiakta, Marilou

  Ayer, Perley

  back-to-the-land movement

  ballads and unions

  Baptists

  Barbara Allen. See also ballads

  Bartram, William

  basketry. See also crafts

  Benedict, Pinckney

  Berea College

  Berry, Wendell

  Beverly Hillbillies. See also stereotypes

  Birmingham, Ala.

  “black invisibility,”

  Black Lung Association

  black lung disease

  Blair Mountain, Battle for

  bluegrass

  Blue Grass Boys blues

  Board of Home Missions. See also home missions

  Boggs, Dock

  Brady, Daniel

  Bragg, Gen. Braxton

  Breathitt, Gov. Edward

  Bristol Sessions

  “broad form deed,”

  Broas, Capt. Richard M.

  Brown, John

  Brownlow, William G.

  Buchanan, Annabel Morris

  Buffalo Forge. See also iron; ironworks

  Bumgarner, Samantha

  Buncombe Turnpike

  Burnside, Gen. Ambrose

  Burroughs, James

  Byer, Kathryn Stripling

  Byrd, William

  Calhoun, Walker

  Calvinism

  Campbell, John C.

  Campbell, Olive Dame

  camp meeting

  Cane Ridge

  capital investment

  capitalism

  Carter, A. P.

  Carter, Forrest

  Carter, Maybelle

  Carter Family

  carving

  Cascade Range

  Caudill, Harry

  chairmaking

  Chappell, Fred

  charcoal

  Chase, Richard

  Cherokee Indian Crafts Co-op

  Cherokee Phoenix

  Cherokee Removal

  Cherokees; Anglo-Cherokees archaeology and; ball game of and bingo casino operated by “civilizing,” –; clan system of and constitution of 1827 crafts of; and dance; Eastern band of; farming among; foods among and government “harmony ethic” among and herbal lore and hunting language of and medicine Mississippian stage of “mixed bloods” among nontraditionalist religion of and Revolutionary War and slaveholding and tourism; in towns trade among; traditionalist

  Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

  Child, Francis James ballads collected by

  Christian Harmony

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Civil Works Administration

  clachans

  Clinch Mountain Boys

  Clinton, Pres. William J.

  clogging

  coal and mechanization

  coalfields

  Coal Mine Health and Safety Act

  Coe Ridge

  Cold Mountain

  Combs, Gov. Bert

  Community Action Program

  company towns

  Conference of Appalachian Governors

  Constitutional Union Party

  copper

  Cornett, Chester

  cotton mills

  Council of Appalachian Governors

  Council of the Southern Mountains

  crafts

  creeds. See also regional religion

  cultural diversity

  dancing

  Davis, Eva

  Davis, Rebecca Harding

  Deliverance. See also stereotypes

  Democratic Party

  de Soto, Hernando

  dialect

  Dickens, Hazel

  Dickey, James

  Dictionary of American Regional English

  Dillard, Annie

  discrimination

  draft, Confederate

  drovers

  dulcimer

  Dykeman, Wilma

  Early, Gen. Jubal

  Eastern Kentucky Regional Development Council

  East Kentucky Development Commission

  East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad

  Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)

  education

  Ehle, John

  election: of 1860 of 1932 of 1960

  elites

  Elizabethan origins of Appalachian speech. See also “Shakespearean myth”

  Elliott, Sarah Barnwell

  Emancipation Proclamation

  enlistments

  farming; family farms. See also Cherokees

  Fergeson, Wash

  Ferguson, Champ

  Finney, Charles Grandison

  “fireside industries,”

  folk art

  folk festivals

  folk medicine

  Folk Revival

  food

  Fort Hamby

  Fox, John, Jr.

  “frolics,” . See also dancing

  frontier

  Frost, William Goodell

  fry bread

  Gaelic

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

  Gauley Bridge

  Gentry, Jane

  Germans

  Giardina, Denise

  ginseng

  gold

  “go to water,”

  grammar

  Grand Ole Opry

  Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.

  Great Awakening. See also Great Revival

  Great Depression

  Great Drought of 1930–31

  Great Migration

  Great Revival. See also Great Awakening

  Great Society

  Great Wagon Road

  guerrilla warfare

  Hamilton, Va.

  Harlan County mine war

  “harmony ethic.” See Cherokees

  Harney, Will Wallace

  Harper’s Ferry

  Harrington, Michael

  Harris, George Washington

  Harry Smith collection

  Hartford, John

  Hatfields and McCoys

  Hawk’s Nest tunnel

  Hay, George D.

  Head Start

  Health and Retirement Fund

  herbal lore

  Hicks, David

  Hicks, Ray

  Hicks, Stanley

  Highlander Folk School

  hillbilly

  Hillbilly Days Festival

  Holiness churches. See also Pentecostal churches

  “holy fairs,” –

  home missions

  Homestead Act

  Hoover, Pres. Herbert

  Horn in the West

  Hotchkiss, Maj. Jedidiah

  House, Silas

  household

  humor traditions

  Humphrey, Sen. Hubert

  hunting. See also Cherokees

  Hutchison, Frank

  identity

  Imboden, Gen. John D.

  immigration of Africans; of Germans ports of entry for Scotch-Irish

  industrialization

  industrial work

  industry

  inflation

  inns

  insiders

  inward-lo
oking perspective

  iron

  ironworks

  isolation

  Jabbour, Alan

  Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,”

  jack tales

  Jarrell, Tommy

  Jim Crow

  Job Corps

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnson, Pres. Lyndon B.

  Justice, Dick

  Keep on the Sunny Side

  Kennedy, Pres. John F.

  Kentucky Cycle

  Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee

  Kephart, Horace

  King, Stephen

  Kingdom of the Happy Land

  Kingsolver, Barbara

  Kingston Trio

  kinship networks

  Knoxville, Tenn.

  Ku Klux Klan

  labor agricultural and mechanization migrant mill and war

  Lair, John

  land ownership and Scotch-Irish and western lands as payment

  language theories

  Lanier, Sidney

  Lanman, Charles

  Lederer, John

  Lee, Gen. Robert E.

  Lewis, John L.

  Lexington, Ky.

  Lexington Declaration (resolution)

  Lilienthal, David

  Lilly Brothers

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada

  “Little Kentucky,”

  livestock

  local-color writers

  log construction

  Long, Will West

  Louisville and Nashville Railroad

  Lulu Belle

  lumber

  Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

  lynching

  lyric songs

  Mahone, Gen. William

  market economy

  Marshall, Catherine

  McClellan, Gen. George B.

  McCrumb, Sharyn

  McGready, James

  Merlefest

  Methodists

  “Midland,”

  migration and poverty; shuttle

  Miles, Emma Bell

  Miller, Arnold

  Miller, Jim Wayne

  Miners for Democracy

  “mine wars,”

  Mingo war

  missionaries. See home missions

  Monroe, Bill

  Monroe, Charlie

  Mooney, James

  Morgan, Arthur E.

  Morgan, Robert

  Mountain Dance and Folk Festival

  Murfree, Mary Noailles

  Nash, Daniel, Sr.

  National Barn Dance

  National Recovery Administration

  natural resources

  New Deal

  New Harp of Columbia

  New Lost City Ramblers

  “New Measures,”

  Niles, John Jacob

  Norfolk and Western Railroad

 

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