Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Old Man Wright rides into exile

As he rode into exile Old Man Lige Wright thanked God that those enemies from behind had knocked him senseless with his own gun.

Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti suggests that Daniel Boone’s tall tales may be the origin of some of the Bigfoot tales in North America.

Schenck was excited about the location because it offered the students the opportunity of direct observation of hardwood & spruce forests.

Myrtle Corbin was known far & wide in the late 19th century as the 4-Legged Woman. One pair belonged to her; the other to her dipygus twin.

At the little country stores where the road crews gather for a quart of milk and a moon pie, that’s where you find some real historians.

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