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From the introduction to the appendix, this volume is filled with interesting information. Covering seventeen counties—Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey—the author spent about ten years searching and gathering materials.
About the Author
John Preston Arthur was born in 1851 in Columbia, South Carolina. After moving to Asheville, North Carolina in 1887, he was made Secretary of the Street Railway Company,later becoming Manager and Superintendent until 1894. After later becoming a lawyer, he was urged to write a history of western North Carolina, with support from the D.A.R.
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- Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History) by Martin Crawford on 6 pages
- A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver by Daniel W. Patterson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Bushwhackers (Civil War in North Carolina) by William R. Trotter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Southern Highlander and His Homeland by John C. Campbell on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains by Christopher Camuto in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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