Publisher:
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
Seller ID: vas5413
Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 247 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges and small former-owner bookplate; in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. In describing the past 150 years in the Upper Cumberland, Lynwood Montell has drawn upon the residents for most of the information in the book, gathering over a period of five years personal recollections and oral traditions. These oral sources have been supple... View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. pink wrappers), 150 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The lumber camps in East Tennessee's mountains and the delivery of logs to sawmills down swift rivers, were among Vic Weals' chronicles in his 37 years with the Knoxville (Tennessee) Journal. He talked with the families who lived in the camps, cut the timber, drove the horse teams, built switchback railroads up the steep hollows, and operated the mountain goat steam locomotives, cranes, and cableways. These were people who up to then were rarely written about. Weals visited their homes and listened at... View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. gray wrappers), 192 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: Vic Weals died in June 2001 after 37 years at The Knoxville Journal and writing lovingly of the people and places of East Tennessee, particularly Cades Cove and the Great Smoky Mountains. He was a mentor to young journalists and revered by his peers... View More...
