Appalachian History

Did Daniel Boone’s Ghostwriter Let Us See the Real Boone?

Daniel Boone’s biography was ghostwritten by at least one, and perhaps two, others. How does this affect our perception of Boone?

Hilda Downer explores why Appalachian musicians place rattlesnake rattles inside instruments. It had to begin before the 1900s, she says.

Please welcome guest author Dean King, who weighs in on the Hatfields & McCoys with his newly published history ‘Feud’.

We open today’s show a look at the origins of the phrase ‘Ollie, Ollie, in come free’. This was the call from the person who was ‘It’ in tag.

Michael Abraham’s historical novel ‘War, WV’ has just released. It centers on a fight for justice in the Appalachian coalfields.