Proving ground : expertise and Appalachian landscapes /
The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of the realm that they would encounter on high. The name "Appalachia" became shorthand for a series of moral and economic calculations and pop culture references. Well before la...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Expert vision: J. Horace McFarland in the woods
- Terrestrial and human: Benton MacKaye's mountain work
- The stern grip of circumstance: hiking the Smoky Mountains, 1920-1940
- A priceless asset: Marion Pearsall in isolation
- William Gedney and the look of coal country.