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Excerpt from Mountain Home: The Walker Family Farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This booklet is based on research into the history of the Walker family and on a study of their home (in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) and the home''s furnishings. These reports, prepared by Park Service personnel, have been combined into a single volume to provide a greater appreciation of the Appalachian Mountain people and their ways. It is offered as a tribute to those people who met the challenge of the mountains and who took delight in the life that those mountains gave.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park not only preserves some of the most scenic areas of the Appalachians, it also testifies to the fortitude of those first settlers who came to its densely forested peaks and valleys. These first families, arriving in the late 1700''s, used old Indian trails through the mountains and along the streams. They cleared the land for crops, orchards, and grazing. Some became dissatisfied and moved on in the 1830''s to Georgia''s newly opened Indian lands. However, their vacated farms were soon reoccupied by new families.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This booklet is based on research into the history of the Walker family and on a study of their home (in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) and the home''s furnishings. These reports, prepared by Park Service personnel, have been combined into a single volume to provide a greater appreciation of the Appalachian Mountain people and their ways. It is offered as a tribute to those people who met the challenge of the mountains and who took delight in the life that those mountains gave.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park not only preserves some of the most scenic areas of the Appalachians, it also testifies to the fortitude of those first settlers who came to its densely forested peaks and valleys. These first families, arriving in the late 1700''s, used old Indian trails through the mountains and along the streams. They cleared the land for crops, orchards, and grazing. Some became dissatisfied and moved on in the 1830''s to Georgia''s newly opened Indian lands. However, their vacated farms were soon reoccupied by new families.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Robert R. Madden
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780365476627
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 68
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Contributors
Author
Robert R. Madden
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780282382896
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 70
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