books set in or about appalachia
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last updated April, 2025
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia
Kiran Bhatraju
Foxfire 12: War Stories, Cherokee Traditions, Summer Camps, Square Dancing, Crafts, and More Affairs of Plain Living
Kaye Carver Collins
Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living (Foxfire Series)
Foxfire Fund Inc.
Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art (Foxfire Series)
Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 9: General Stores, The Jud Nelson Wagon, A Praying Rock, A Catawban Indian Potter, Haint Tales, Quilting, Homes Cures, The Log Cabin Revisited (Foxfire Series)
Foxfire 8: Southern Folk Potter from Pug Mills, Ash Glazes, Groundhog Kilns to Face Jugs, Churns, Roosters, Mule Swapping and Chicken Fighting (Foxfire Series)
Foxfire 7
Paul F. Gillespie
Foxfire 6
Foxfire 5
Foxfire 4
Foxfire 3
Foxfire 2: Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making, and more affairs of plain living
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
Foxfire Story: Oral Tradition in Southern Appalachia
Foxfire Fund Inc
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series)
Alessandro Portelli
Writing Appalachia
Katherine Ledford
Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
Ronald D. Eller
Storming Heaven
Denise Giardina
Hawk's Nest
Hubert Skidmore
Don't Tell'em You're Cold: A Memoir of Poverty and Resilience
Katherine P. Manley
A History of Appalachia
Richard B. Drake
Our Southern Highlanders: Introduction By George Ellison
Horace Kephart
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia
Emily Hilliard
A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West
James J. Lorence
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
John C. Campbell
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
David Alan Corbin
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937
Durwood Dunn
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
Harry M. Caudill
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
James R. Green
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
Elizabeth Catte
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