Bibliograph

Ramp Hollow, the ordeal of Appalachia, Steven Stoll

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Ramp Hollow, the ordeal of Appalachia, Steven Stoll

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-385) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ramp Hollow

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

968552102

Responsibility statement

Steven Stoll

Sub title

the ordeal of Appalachia

Summary

In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee owners?including George Washington and other founders?who laid claim to the region. Even as Daniel Boone became famous as a backwoods hunter and guide, the economy he represented was already in peril. Within just a few decades, Appalachian hunters and farmers went from pioneers to pariahs, from heroes to hillbillies, in the national imagination, and the area was locked into an enduring association with poverty and backwardness. Stoll traces these developments with empathy and precision, examining crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion, the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating “scramble for Appalachia.” Ramp Hollow recasts the story of Appalachia as a complex struggle between mountaineers and profit-seeking forces from outside the region

Table Of Contents

Contemporary ancestors -- Provision grounds -- The Rye Rebellion -- Mountaineers are always free -- Interlude: agrarian twilight -- The captured garden -- Negotiated settlements

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