Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 by Henry D. Shapiro

Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920

Henry D. Shapiro

400 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need t...

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