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High Mountains Rising

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by Richard A. Straw


  Norman, Gurney

  O Brother, Where Art Thou

  Oconaluftee Village

  Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

  Old Regular Baptists

  Old Time Baptists

  Olmsted, Frederick Law

  Osborne Brothers

  “otherness,”

  outdoor drama

  outsider art

  outsiders

  outward-looking perspective

  Ozark Mountains

  Paint and Cabin Creek mine war

  Pancake, Breece D’J

  Pardo, Juan

  Patton, James

  Patton, Mrs. J. W.

  Peer, Ralph

  Pentecostal churches. See also Holiness churches

  Pietism

  Pikeville, Ky.

  Plantation of Ireland

  Poetics of Appalachian Space

  poetry

  poverty

  Powell, John

  Presbyterians

  President’s Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC)

  Primitive Baptists

  Proclamation of 1763

  Proffitt, Frank

  Program

  pronunciation

  protest songs

  “public work,”

  Qualla Cherokees

  Queen, Sam

  quilts. See also crafts

  race relations

  racial violence

  radio

  railroads construction of and slaves

  ramps

  Rash, Ron

  Reconstruction

  Red Cross

  redneck

  Reece, Florence

  regional religion

  Republican Party

  Ritchie, Jean

  roads

  Robison, Carson

  Rodgers, Jimmie

  Roman Catholic Church

  Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D.

  Rosecrans, Gen. William

  Ruffner, Lewis

  Ruffner, Mrs.

  Rural Electrification Administration

  Rylant, Cynthia

  Sacred Harp

  salt

  Saltville, Va.

  salvation

  School of Living

  Scotch-Irish and religion

  Scruggs, Earl

  secession

  sect

  Seeger, Mike

  segregation

  self-sufficiency

  Sequoyah (George Gist)

  serpent handling

  Settle, Mary Lee

  “Shakespearean myth,” . See also Elizabethan origins of Appalachian speech

  shaped notation

  Shapiro, Henry D.

  Sharp, Cecil

  Sharpsburg, battle of

  Shelby, Anne

  Shelton Laurel massacre

  Shenandoah Valley

  Sheppard, Muriel Early

  Sheridan, Gen. Philip

  Sherman, Gen. William T.

  Shriners

  “shuttle migration.” See migration: shuttle

  singing schools

  slash-and-burn farming

  slave labor

  slaveowners

  slavery African; and Cherokees and the Civil War; and coalmining and goldmining and hiring of slaves and iron; and railroads and salt

  slave trade

  Smith, Gen. Kirby

  Smith, Lee

  Southern Baptist Convention

  Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

  “South Midland,”

  Stanley, Carter

  Stanley, Ralph

  “stay laws,”

  stereotypes and East Tennessee

  Still, James

  Stoneman, Ernest

  Stoneman, Gen. George B.

  strikes

  strip mining

  Strother, David Hunter

  Stuart, Jesse

  subdenominational churches

  Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

  tall tales

  Tawes, Gov. Millard

  tenancy

  Tennessee Coal and Iron Company

  Tennessee Valley Authority

  Thomas, Jean

  Thomas, William Holland

  Thomas Legion

  timber

  Tom Dooley

  trade

  Trail of Tears

  Treaty of New Echota

  Tri-cities

  Turner, Frederick Jackson

  Ulster

  unchurched, the

  Underwood, Gov. Cecil

  Union Carbide Corporation

  unions

  United Mine Workers of America

  Unto These Hills

  urban life

  urban-suburban exchanges

  Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

  vocabulary

  Voices from the Hills

  Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

  wage labor

  Wagner Act of 1935

  Wallerstein, Immanuel

  Wallin, Doug

  War on Poverty

  Washington, Booker T.

  Watson, Arthel “Doc,”

  Weatherford, Willis D.

  Weaver, William

  weaving

  Weller, Jack

  Western North Carolina Railroad

  West Virginia primary

  Wheeling (W.Va.) Convention

  Whisman, John

  White Top Mountain Folk Festival

  Whitter, Henry

  Wiggins, Ella May

  wild plants

  Wildwood Flower

  Williams, Cratis

  Williams, Nancy

  Williams, Sally

  Williams, Sam

  Williamson, J. W.

  Wise, Chubby

  Wiseman, Scott

  WLS

  Wolfe, Thomas

  womanless wedding

  Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  World War II

  WSM

  WWVA

  yeoman farmers

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