Originated with papers presented at the Conference on the Appalachian Frontier, held in May 1985 at James Madison University and Mary Baldwin College, and sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Historical Institute and the American Frontier Culture Foundation. Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-337) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : revisionism and regionalism / Robert D. Mitchell -- Batts and Fallam explore the backbone of the continent / Alan V. Briceland -- Cherokee women farmers hold their ground / Thomas Hatley -- Religious pluralism in colonial Pennsylvania / Sally Schwartz -- What is distinctive about the Scotch-Irish? / Kenneth W. Keller -- Germans in the making of Frederick County, Maryland, 1730-1800 / Elizabeth A. Kessel -- Land policy and settlement in the Northern Shenandoah Valley / Warren R. Hofstra -- The cattle trade in Western Virginia, 1760-1830 / Richard K. Macmaster -- A trader on the Western Carolina frontier / H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood -- The politics of Appalachian Virginia, 1790-1830 / Van Beck Hall. Marietta and the Ohio company / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- Log house construction in Blount County, Tennessee / John Morgan -- Economic development in Appalachian Kentucky, 1800-1860 / Tyrel G. Moore -- Social class and economic development in southeastern Kentucky, 1820-1880 / Mary Beth Pudup -- The agricultural origins of economic dependency, 1840-1880 / Paul Salstrom.
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