High Mountains Rising
Subtitle: APPALACHIA IN TIME AND PLACE
Contributors: Richard A. Straw (Editor); H. Tyler Blethen (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252071768
Subjects: American studies; History; History - U.S.; History: American; The Americas; USA; Sociology - Rural; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Americas (North Central South West Indies); Appalachian Region; Civilization; Social conditions
First sentence: The southern Appalachians of the early historic period (the seventeenth through early eighteenth centuries) were home to the Cherokees, who had a total population of possibly 20,000 at the beginning of this period.