Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
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At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill's study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by fa
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Manufacturer: Jesse Stuart Foundation
Release date: 1 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 1931672008 | ISBN-13: 9781931672009
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Release date: 1 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 1931672008 | ISBN-13: 9781931672009
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