Mountain People in a Flat Land

Name: Mountain People in a Flat Land
Brand: Ohio University Press
SKU: 9780821412305
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Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-65

Szerző: Carl E. Feather

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Ohio University Press

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In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperit...

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Szerző

Carl E. Feather

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

281

EAN

9780821412305

ISBN

0821412302

Enbook ID

04935196

Kiadó

Ohio University Press

Súly

499

Méretek

159 x 241 x 22

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In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom. Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community -- Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled best location in the nation. These migrants share their stories of life in Appalachia before coming north. There are tales of making moonshine, colorful family members, home remedies harvested from the wild, and life in coal company towns and lumber camps. The mountaineers explain why, despite the beauty of the mountains and the deep kinship roots, they had to leave Appalachia. Stories of their hardships, cultural clashes, assimilation, and ultimate successes in the flatland provide a moving look at an often stereotyped people.

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Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-65

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