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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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