Introduction: a constant Arcadia -- Leather: the deerskin trade in the southern mountains -- Plants: botanical collectors and the roots of Appalachian identity -- Gold: the rise, fall, and rebirth of
... southern gold mining -- Salt: Saltville's Civil War -- Transportation: Roanoke, railroads, and Appalachia on the move -- Scenery: recreation and tourism on Grandfather Mountain -- Tobacco: making ground for an international crop -- Power: building an atomic Appalachia in east Tennessee -- Coal: sludge ponds and vanishing mountains -- Epilogue: The adelgid and the salamander. Read More