Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Writers

Its wild spirit is true to the life of the West

Zane Grey is rightly known today as the “Father of the Adult Western.” He wrote more than 80 books featuring rich western imagery.

‘Sure-shot Bessie,’ from “Bundle of Troubles, and other Tarheel Tales,” by Workers of the Writers Program of the WPA in North Carolina.

Stories from descendants of workers on the dam, government officials involved, and families who’d been displaced by the dam’s construction.

Horace Kephart became especially renowned for his classic works ‘Our Southern Highlanders’ and ‘Camping and Woodcraft.’

Journalist Bill Sharpe referred to Mt Mitchell as “the old mountain of mystery & death.” The lofty peak has certainly earned this appellation.

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