Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

by Michael Ann Williams

Book Overview

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later.

This book surveying the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878057927
• ISBN13: 9780878057924
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.5"