Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

He treed the coons in the cliff

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

There is a town in Maryland’s westernmost county of Garrett that got its name from a happy accident.

On April 29, 1904, the Court of Appeals ruled that the new county failed to meet constitutional standards of size and population.

Finally, in 1928, researchers isolated from white snakeroot a highly complex alcohol they named tremetol; THAT was the true cause.

Milk sickness was a frequent 19th century cause of illness and death throughout much of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Ohio.