Dorie: Woman of the Mountains [Hardcover]

Florence C. Bush (Author), Durwood Dunn (Photographer)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; 1st edition (May 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870497251
• ISBN-13: 978-0870497254
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,931,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step Back in Time . . ., November 6, 2001

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Candie Moonshower "Candie Moonshower" (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

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DORIE: WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAINS is an excellent example of new history-making, literature in which one person's story is representative of an era and its people. Dorie's narration of her life in the Great Smoky Mountains during the earliest years of the twentieth century evokes memories of our own old folks and their storytelling. Her account of the often hardscrabble existence she and her family endured in the mountains of East Tennessee is not a depressing one, but a testimony of the pioneer spirit that helped build this nation. Dorie's life straddled the fence between the old ways and the modern age, a time when many people still worked to produce everything their families needed even as other people discovered all the things that money could purchase at the local store or through the Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogues. Education was not always as easily obtained. Jobs became increasingly hard to find as the area was developed into a national park and with the onset of the Great Depression. Through Dorie's story, we get an inside glimpse of life in an isolated but beautiful mountain wilderness, and the ways in which modernity simultaneously improved financial situations and contributed to the destruction of a uniquely American way of life.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Dorie, September 12, 2009

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The book reminded my mum of younger days growing up in the Smokies like Dorie. It was a fabulous and truthful book which presented life in the mountains like they were and like they are still in some hollars here. Absolutely loved it and would recommend it to anyone to read.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dorie: Woman of the Mountains, June 12, 2000

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This review is from: Dorie: Woman Of The Mountains (Paperback)

Dorie:Woman of the Mountains is an excellent book. Very well written - you feel as if you are talking with Dorie herself as she chronicles her life in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. This book is so entertaining you want to read it in one sitting. I would highly recommend this book to everyone. It is a most enjoyable trip back in time.