A mountaineer in motion
Subtitle: the memoir of Dr. Abraham Jobe, 1817-1906
By: edited by David C. Hsiung.
Contributors: Hsiung, David C., 1961-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781572334892
Subjects: Jobe, Abraham, -- 1817-1906; Jobe, Abraham, -- 1817-1906 -- Relations with Indians; Pioneers -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography; Mountain people -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography; Physicians -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography; Businessmen -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography; Social change -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century; Cades Cove (Tenn.) -- Biography; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography; Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline; title: Abraham Jobe's family; title: Into Indian country, 1817-1836; title: Far-flung business ventures, 1836-1841; title: Medicine in the mountains, 1841-1890s; title: The Civil War and its aftermath, 1861-1868; title: An agent to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, 1868; title: The development of the New South, 1868-1894; title: Family affairs, 1895-1905.