Description
Traveling around the treacherous and numerous landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge traditionally met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native American citizens, dusty stagecoach routes and necessary railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state’s first electric streetcars. Intrepid young women and men continued North Carolina’s aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to succeed in markets in South Carolina. Writer Terry Ruscin finds the visionaries and risk-takers who prepared the ground to the “Land of the Sky” in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.