Description
Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically describes the religion, occupations, living conditions, social life, and customs of those migrants.
Author: H. Tyler Blethen, Curtis W. Wood
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780865262799
ISBN10: 0865262799
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
Author: H. Tyler Blethen, Curtis W. Wood
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780865262799
ISBN10: 0865262799
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
About the Author
H. Tyler Blethen is professor of history at Western Carolina University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1985, Dr. Blethen has also been head of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. Curtis W. Wood, Jr., is emeritus professor of history at Western Carolina University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.