From Ulster to Carolina

96 pp., 6 x 9, 26 halftones, 26 halftones

Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8652-6279-9
Published: January 1998

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Distributed for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History

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.

About the Authors

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.
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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.
For more information about Curtis W. Wood, visit the Author Page.