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Cades Cove by Durwood Dunn

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Cades Cove

The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community

Durwood Dunn

University of Tennessee Press · Print & ebook · August 15, 1988

Reading lane: Southern U.S. History

Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, Durwood Dunn 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.

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Place and Memory

A serious, place-rooted history that reads like close conversation with the past.

Come here for

  • Southern Appalachian history with a local, lived-in feel
  • layered cultural context without academic fog

Expect

  • family and religion as historical currents
  • steady, sustained reading

Book Details

Authors
Durwood Dunn
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Published
August 15, 1988
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Southern U.S. History · East South Central Travel (AL, KY, MS, TN)
Reading lane
Southern U.S. History

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Publisher Categories

  • 19th-Century America

  • 20th-Century America

  • Southern U.S. History

  • Mountains

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  • Regional Studies

About This Book

Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, Durwood Dunn 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.

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