Beyond the mountains : commodifying Appalachian environments

Human ecology Natural resources Appalachian Region, Southern
University of Georgia Press
2018
EISBN 0820353973
Introduction: a constant Arcadia.
Leather: the deerskin trade in the southern mountains.
Plants: botanical collectors and the roots of Appalachian identity.
Gold: the rise, fall, and rebirth of southern gold mining.
Salt: Saltville's Civil War.
Transportation: Roanoke, railroads, and Appalachia on the move.
Scenery: recreation and tourism on Grandfather Mountain.
Tobacco: making ground for an international crop.
Power: building an atomic Appalachia in east Tennessee.
Coal: sludge ponds and vanishing mountains.
Epilogue: The adelgid and the salamander.
Leather: the deerskin trade in the southern mountains.
Plants: botanical collectors and the roots of Appalachian identity.
Gold: the rise, fall, and rebirth of southern gold mining.
Salt: Saltville's Civil War.
Transportation: Roanoke, railroads, and Appalachia on the move.
Scenery: recreation and tourism on Grandfather Mountain.
Tobacco: making ground for an international crop.
Power: building an atomic Appalachia in east Tennessee.
Coal: sludge ponds and vanishing mountains.
Epilogue: The adelgid and the salamander.
