Oconaluftee
The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley
By Elizabeth Giddens
304 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 29 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7341-7
Published: April 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7340-0
Published: April 2023 -
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Published: February 2023
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Elizabeth Giddens offers a deeply researched and elegantly written account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. She builds the tale from archives, census records, property records, personal memoirs, and more, showing how national events affected all Oconaluftee's people—Indigenous, Black, and white.
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Elizabeth Giddens is professor of English at Kennesaw State University.
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"A deep dive into one valley of the mountain borderlands of the antebellum South, the Civil War, and industrialization. Giddens makes this amazing place come alive by connecting the stories of prosperous and less prosperous people from vastly different walks of life."—Margaret Lynn Brown, Brevard College
"An engaging exploration of how people lived their lives in the face of historical change and how they fought, shared, and endured. In the struggles of valley residents, readers may see their own struggles and be reminded just how far the stereotypes of Appalachia differ from the realities and complexities lived out in the Oconaluftee Valley."—Tom Lee, East Tennessee State University