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Author:
Pickett, Suzanne.
Title:
The path was steep : a memoir of Appalachian coal camps during the Great Depression / Suzanne Pickett ; foreword by Norman McMillan.
Publisher:
NewSouth Books,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiv, 210 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Subject:
Pickett, Suzanne--Homes and haunts.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs--20th century.
Appalachian Mountains--Biography.
Appalachian Mountains--History, Local.
Authors--United States--Biography.
Coal miners--United States--Biography.
Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region, Southern--History--20th century.
Depressions--1929.
Pickett, Suzanne--Homes.
Southern Appalachian Region--Social life and customs.
Appalachian Mountains--Biography.
Appalachian Mountains--Local history.
American authors--Biography.
Coal miners--United States--Biography.
Coal mines and mining--Southern Appalachian Region--History--20th century.
Great Depression, 1929-1939.
Notes:
"Published in cooperation with The Cahaba Trace Commission."
Contents:
You could almost smell the Depression -- What October would bring -- As long as I've got a biscuit, you won't starve -- Despite all, well-fed and loved -- The community barber -- The value of Papa's teaching -- A new hope -- We never knew our cruelty -- Thunderbolt -- Here we rest -- Hottest day I ever saw -- Such good people -- The worst road in the United States -- Score one for West Virginia! -- Hot dogs for Thanksgiving -- So dad-burned purty -- Every river leads to Piper -- Best medicine in the world -- "Sleeping sickness" -- A burglar wouldn't try to break in -- Wild over Roosevelt -- Is this a deathwatch? -- All men brothers.
ISBN:
1588382613 (pbk.)
9781588382610 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)829754898
LCCN:
2013034242
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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