Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Lucy Furman lobbies against steel trap hunting in KY

Lucy Furman accomplished, between 1934 and 1938, a task that seemed at first impossible of accomplishment: outlawing the steel trap.

In this interview, Harriette Arnow, author of ‘The Dollmaker,’ discusses her time spent with the hill people of Kentucky.

WV entrepreneur Donald F. Duncan (1892-1971) had never heard of the yo-yo until 1928, when he encountered Pedro Flores in California.

“F. A. Seagle was called to Marion today in connection with the undertaking department of Seagle Bros.” –a cross section of 1928 life

Mammoth Cave showed the profit potential in cave tourism; it incited a cave war in the 1920s, at the dawn of the automobile vacation era.

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