| Contents |
The headwaters -- Cherokee(DhBSc®), the principal people -- Conquistadors -- A land unsettled -- Eden of the mountains -- Where there's water -- Uncivil war in the mountains -- The weed, the doctor, and the iron horse -- Morning greets the watershed -- Hardwoods, hides, and over here -- Promise and peril -- Rivers of resilience -- The planners' paradox. |
| Abstract |
"John Ross has written an update to Wilma Dykeman's The French Broad, bringing the river's story into the present day. Two generations have passed since the publication of Dykeman's landmark environmental history, and during the intervening years scholars have learned a great deal more about the watershed's geology, climate, and archaeology. Dykeman had memorably asked what the river meant to the people living in the watershed. Ross extends her question by exploring how the river will sustain people in the future given the fourteen-thousand-year history newly elucidated in this text"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ross, John, 1946- Through the mountains. First edition. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021] 9781621906643 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020057468 |
| ISBN | 9781621906636 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1621906639 hardcover |
| ISBN | kindle edition |
| ISBN | electronic book |
