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Land of Saddle-Bags-Pa

Land of Saddle-Bags-Pa

Raine, James Watt

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813109299
ISBN13: 9780813109299
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Feb 13 1997
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified.

Originally published in 1924, it was advertised as a racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure and the delicious humor of vigorously human people. James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, and farming. In a conscious effort to dispel the negative stereotype of the drunken, slothful, gun-toting hillbilly prone to violence, Raine presents positive examples from his own experiences among the region's native inhabitants.

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