Elkmont's Uncle LEM Ownby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elkmont's Uncle LEM Ownby write by F. Carroll McMahan. This book was released on 2013-10. Elkmont's Uncle LEM Ownby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Since his birth in 1889 in a remote part of the Smoky Mountains called Jake's Creek, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most famous mountain man and hermit. Ownby was sight impaired from an early age but still managed to plant an apple orchard, raise livestock and keep bees in a home he built himself. Lem saw the founding of Elkmont and the rise and fall of logging operations in the pristine wilderness as the last man living within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His fame grew as a mountain mystic, selling honey and offering wisdom to hikers, yet his principles remained solid, as he once even refused the company of three Supreme Court justices. Enter the forest with author and Ownby friend Carroll McMahan as he tells the hilarious, dramatic and fascinating stories of a man who truly lived on his own terms"--
Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby
Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby write by F. Carroll McMahan. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enter the forest with author F. Carroll McMahan as he tells dramatic, fascinating and sometimes humorous stories of a man who lived truly on his own terms. Born in 1889 in the Smoky Mountains, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most recognized figures. Sight-impaired from an early age, Lem spent his life logging, bear hunting, farming and tending his beehives. He welcomed the arrival of logging operations into the pristine wilderness but became an eyewitness to the devastation it brought to land, streams and wildlife. As the last leaseholder living within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lem became a legend, selling his honey and offering pearls of wisdom to hikers, writers and even the governor. Lem's principles remained solid, his opinions so unwavering that he once refused to entertain two Supreme Court justices.
Lost Elkmont
Lost Elkmont - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Elkmont write by Daniel L. Paulin. This book was released on 2015. Lost Elkmont available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Elkmont from small logging community to exclusive summer resort and GSMNP site. Prior to the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) in 1934, the small community of Elkmont was established as a logging camp by Col. Wilson B. Townsend's Little River Lumber Company around 1908. This was after he purchased 86,000 acres of mostly virgin forest. The area that was previously inhabited by various American Indian groups, and later by European-American settlers beginning around 1830, was to become for a time the second largest town in Sevier County, Tennessee. Colonel Townsend's business ventures proved successful beyond expectation, as he skillfully exploited the area's valuable hardwood forests. His logging company and railroad provided a mountain population with jobs and steady wages. Once all the valuable timber was harvested, Townsend sold land to private citizens who established what was to become an exclusive summer community that included both the Appalachian and Wonderland Clubs. These coexisted inside the GSMNP until 1992. This is the story of Elkmont.
100 Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
100 Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 100 Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park write by Russ Manning. This book was released on 1999. 100 Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * If you're heading to the Smokies, you'll need this guidebook! * All the trails, camping information, and best attractions for visitors of Great Smoky Mountain National Park This guidebook offers a mix of day hikes and overnight backpacking trails, and expanded natural history and background information on the Smoky Mountains, making it the most complete guidebook to the region. Divided into sections covering Tennessee and North Carolina, the guide is arranged so that all of the Tennessee trails can be done with a link, via the Newfound Gap Road, to the North Carolina trails and vice versa. All trails are grouped by access point, and each hiking description includes mileage, elevation change, difficulty rating, camping information, cautions, links to other trails, and attractions. Special lists cover the best waterfalls, stands of old-growth forest, historic structures, wildflower spots, and mountain views. Additional chapters feature information on geology, flora and fauna, park history, and more.
Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English
Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English write by Michael B. Montgomery. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.
