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A Popular History of Western North Carolina: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers (American Chronicles)

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For individuals who visit and people who make the region their home, there’s something captivating about the mountains of Western North Carolina. These ancient hills have cradled a culture that encompasses Cherokee heritage, pioneer legacies and urban visions. With a warm, accessible style, longtime Asheville Citizen-Times creator Rob Neufeld offers an exploration of Western North Carolina’s history through the stories of its people.

We meet Lillian Exum Clement, the first female legislator in the South; and Nina Simone, the African American singing prodigy from Tryon. We get to view controversial elements of the Civil War in Western North Carolina from more than one points of view and draw our own conclusions. We comprehend the variety of people that have created the region as it exists now―alive with traditions, contradictions and promise. As a substitute of merely reciting historical fact, Neufeld helps readers take note the history of the mountains by allowing us to “walk in the shoes” of the Native Americans, farmers, soldiers and others who preceded us. More than an enlightening read, this book illuminates the progression of frontier life that we have got come to know as Western North Carolina history. By linking the lives and experiences of the land’s more than a few inhabitants, Neufeld captures the spirit of Appalachia within this volume.

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