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The Appalachian Frontier - America's First Surge Westward (Hardcover)
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The Appalachian Frontier - America's First Surge Westward (Hardcover)
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John Anthony Caruso's The Appalachian Frontier, first published in
1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of
its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region's history from
its earliest seventeenth-century scouting parties to the admission
of Tenessee to the Union in 1796, Caruso describes the exchange of
ideas, values, and cultural traits that marked Appalachia as a
unique frontier. Looking at the rich and mountainous land between
the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, The Appalachian Frontier follows the
story of the Long Hunters in Kentucky; the struggles of the
Regulators in North Carolina; the founding of the Watauga,
Transylvania, Franklin, and Cumberland settlements; the siege of
Boonesboro; and the patterns and challenges of frontier life. While
narrating the grippig stories of such figures as Daniel Boone,
George Rogers Clark, and Chief Logan, Caruso combines social,
political, and economic history into a comprehensive overview of
the early mountain South. In his new introduction, John C. Inscoe
examines how this work exemplified the so-called consensus school
of history that arose in the United States during the cold war.
Unabashedly celebratory in his analysis of American nation
building, Caruso shows how the development of Appalachia Frontier
that contemporary historians would regard as one-sided and
romanticized, Inscoe points out that "those of us immersed so
deeply in the study of the region and its people sometimes tend to
forget that the white settlement of the mountain south in the
eighteenth century was not merely the chronological foundation of
the Appalachian experience. As Caruso so vividly demonstrates, it
also represented a vital--evendefining--stage in the American
progression across the continent."
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