[PDF] Tweetsie Country eBook

Author : Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932807588

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Tweetsie Country can be roughly defined as being bound on the north by the Great Depression, on the east by the state of North Carolina, on the west by Tennessee, and on the south by hope and determination. Here is all the color and charm of the Tweetsie, with its broad gauge aspirations on a narrow gauge budget. It is the story of a unique little railroad that traveled the Blue Ridge country and won the hearts of those who lived there. This handsome pictorial history includes 250 outstanding photographs, plus maps, scale drawings, and three full-color paintings by Mike Pearsall and Casey Holtzinger.

Author : Julian Scheer
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932807601

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Tweetsie, officially the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), was the first railroad to cross the Blue Ridge. This history and legend provides a loving look at the mountains and their people. It is a delightful story of the best loved of all the doughty little narrow gauges—Tweetsie—the little engine that could, and still does!

Author : Alice Boggs Lentz
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781570720253

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Marc takes a ride on the Tweetsie train and helps the deputies on Tweetsie's opening day.

Author : Drew A. Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820353965

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Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.

Author : John R. Waite
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570722721

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Telling the story of Tweetsie Railroad and the East Tennessee Railway, this book documents the history of the standard gauge ET & WNC after the narrow gauge was gone and is illustrated with many maps and photographs.

Author : Loren M. Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475994478

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John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelseys journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in Kelseys personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

Author : Daniel W. Barefoot
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Robert F. Hoke was the youngest Southern general in the Civil War, rumored to be Lee's successor, but once he returned home, "he declined every honor offered him by North Carolinians, including the governorship."--Jacket.