Course Texts and Readings
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains	Michael Frome	917.6889 F931s 1980
A History of Mt. Mitchell and the Black Mountains: Exploration, Development, and Preservation	S. Kent Schwarzkopf	975.6 S411h
Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers	Horace Kephart	917.5 K38o 1976
Dorie: Woman of the Mountains	Florence Cope Bush	976.88905092 C782b
Reference Books
Appalachian Women	Sidney Saylor Farr	R 016.3054 F239a
Final Report	Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative	R 363.73920975 S719f 2002
Encyclopedia of Appalachia	Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds.	R 975.003 E56 2006
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture	Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, eds.	R 975.00321 E56
Emerging Patterns in the Southern Highlands: A Reference Atlas	Paul E. Lovingood and Robert E. Reiman	R 975.1043 E53 V.1-3
The Western North Carolina Almanac and Book of Lists	Robert Beverley	R 975.6 B571
An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee	Jim Stokely and Jeff D. Johnson, eds.	R 976.8 E56
Electronic Books (* also available as a print book in this library)
Appalachia: A History *	John Alexander Williams	Read this book
The Appalachian Forest: A Search for Roots and Renewal *	Chris Bolgiano	Read this book
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South From Slavery to Segregation*	John C. Inscoe	Read this book
Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History 1730-1940	Paul Salstrom	Read this book
Better Felt Than Said: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in Southern Appalachia	Troy D. Abell	Read this book
The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia *	Wilma A. Dunaway	Read this book
A History of Appalachia *	Richard B. Drake	Read this book
Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 *	Jane S. Becker	Read this book
Regular Books
Books on the Southern Appalachians
An American Challenge: A Report on Economic Trends and Social Issues in Appalachia	Richard A. Couto	330.975 C871a
Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century	Mary Beth Pudup, ed.	975 A6466
Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains	Eliot Porter, natural and human history by Edward Abbey	917.6889 P844a
Environment in Appalachia: Proceedings from the 1989 Conference on Appalachia	Jane W. Bagby, ed.	363.700974 E61
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology (2nd. ed.)	George Constantz	508.74 C758h 2004
A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion	John Nolt	333.70975 N798L
What Have we Done?: The Foundation for Global Sustainability's State of the Bioregion Report for the Upper Tennessee Valley and the Southern Appalachian Mountains	John Nolt et al.	363.7009768 W555
Books on the Great Smoky Mountains
At Home in the Smokies: A History Handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee	U.S. Department of the Interior	976.889 A861
Birth of a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains: An Unprecendented Crusade which Created, as a Gift of the People, the Nation's Most Popular Park	Carlos Campbell	719.320976889 C187b
The Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains	Jim Hargan	917.6889 H279b
The Cades Cove Story	A. Randolph Shields	976.889 S555c
Fontana: A Pocket History of Appalachia	Lance Holland	975.697 H735f
The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park	Daniel Pierce	976.889 P615g
Great Smoky Mountains	Dick McHugh and Mitch Moore	917.6889 M151i
Great Smoky Mountains Folklife	Michael Ann Williams	398.0976889 W725g
Highland Homeland: The People of the Great Smokies	Wilma Dykeman and Jim Stokely	976.889 D996h
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains	George Ellison	976.889 E47m
Natural Adventures in the Mountains of Western North Carolina	Mary Ellen Hammond and Jim Parham	917.6889 H227n
Old Smoky Mountain Days: Selected Writings of Horace Kephart, Joseph S. Hall and Harvey Broome	Arthur McDade	976.889 O44
Whistle over the Mountain: Timber, Track & Trails in the Tennessee Smokies	Ronald G. Schmidt	976.889 S353w
The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains	Margaret Lynn Brown	976.889 B879w
Other Books
Blue Ridge Parkway: Proceedings of the Blue Ridge Parkway Golden Anniversary Conference	Barry M. Buxton, ed.	975.5 B658b
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation	Karl Jacoby	333.780973 J17c
The French Broad	Wilma Dykeman	976.8895 D996f
The Highway 221-105 Project: A Citizen's Guide to Community Change	Community and Regional Studies Class, ENS Department, Warren Wilson College	333.7615 H638
Historic Asheville, 1792-1930	Bob Terrell	975.688 T325h
May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina	Robert S. Brunk, ed.	975.6 M466 V.1-2
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America	Timothy Silver	975.68 S587m
The Swannanoa Valley	William T. Penfound	975.688 P398s
The Tall Woman	Wilma Dykeman	F D996t
The Travels of William Bartram	William Bartram	917.5 B294t
Western North Carolina Since the Civil War	Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen	917.56 V269w

Videos
Acid Rain in North Carolina	VIDEO 363.738609756 N864
Appalachia: No Man's Land	VIDEO 975.4 A646
The Appalachians: A Land Shaped by the People, a People Shaped by the Land	DVD 975 A646 V.1-3
Breathing Troubled Air: A Prayer for the Mountains	VIDEO 363.739209756 B828
Catfish, Man of the Woods	VIDEO 615.882 C359
Hazel Creek Hike	VIDEO 975.696 H735h
Nantahala: Land of the Noonday Sun	VIDEO 917.568 N191
Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians	VIDEO 634.98 R287
The Road to Nowhere	VIDEO 975.696 R628
The Southern Appalachians: A Changing World	VIDEO 557.55 S727
Strip Mining: Energy, Environment, and Economics	VIDEO 333.7650973 S918
Women of these Hills: Stories of Growing up in Appalachia: A Living Documentary	VIDEO 305.4209756 W872

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