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Buffalo Forge.
See also
iron; ironworks

Bumgarner, Samantha

Buncombe Turnpike

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose

Burroughs, James

Byer, Kathryn Stripling

Byrd, William

Calhoun, Walker

Calvinism

Campbell, John C.

Campbell, Olive Dame

camp meeting

Cane Ridge

capital investment

capitalism

Carter, A. P.

Carter, Forrest

Carter, Maybelle

Carter Family

carving

Cascade Range

Caudill, Harry

chairmaking

Chappell, Fred

charcoal

Chase, Richard

Cherokee Indian Crafts Co-op

Cherokee Phoenix

Cherokee Removal

Cherokees; Anglo-Cherokees archaeology and; ball game of and bingo casino operated by “civilizing,” –; clan system of and constitution of 1827 crafts of; and dance; Eastern band of; farming among; foods among and government “harmony ethic” among and herbal lore and hunting language of and medicine Mississippian stage of “mixed bloods” among nontraditionalist religion of and Revolutionary War and slaveholding and tourism; in towns trade among; traditionalist

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

Child, Francis James ballads collected by

Christian Harmony

Cincinnati, Ohio

Civil Works Administration

clachans

Clinch Mountain Boys

Clinton, Pres. William J.

clogging

coal and mechanization

coalfields

Coal Mine Health and Safety Act

Coe Ridge

Cold Mountain

Combs, Gov. Bert

Community Action Program

company towns

Conference of Appalachian Governors

Constitutional Union Party

copper

Cornett, Chester

cotton mills

Council of Appalachian Governors

Council of the Southern Mountains

crafts

creeds.
See also
regional religion

cultural diversity

dancing

Davis, Eva

Davis, Rebecca Harding

Deliverance
.
See also
stereotypes

Democratic Party

de Soto, Hernando

dialect

Dickens, Hazel

Dickey, James

Dictionary of American Regional English

Dillard, Annie

discrimination

draft, Confederate

drovers

dulcimer

Dykeman, Wilma

Early, Gen. Jubal

Eastern Kentucky Regional Development Council

East Kentucky Development Commission

East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad

Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)

education

Ehle, John

election: of 1860 of 1932 of 1960

elites

Elizabethan origins of Appalachian speech.
See also
“Shakespearean myth”

Elliott, Sarah Barnwell

Emancipation Proclamation

enlistments

farming; family farms.
See also
Cherokees

Fergeson, Wash

Ferguson, Champ

Finney, Charles Grandison

“fireside industries,”

folk art

folk festivals

folk medicine

Folk Revival

food

Fort Hamby

Fox, John, Jr.

“frolics,” .
See also
dancing

frontier

Frost, William Goodell

fry bread

Gaelic

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Gauley Bridge

Gentry, Jane

Germans

Giardina, Denise

ginseng

gold

“go to water,”

grammar

Grand Ole Opry

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.

Great Awakening.
See also
Great Revival

Great Depression

Great Drought of 1930–31

Great Migration

Great Revival.
See also
Great Awakening

Great Society

Great Wagon Road

guerrilla warfare

Hamilton, Va.

Harlan County mine war

“harmony ethic.”
See
Cherokees

Harney, Will Wallace

Harper's Ferry

Harrington, Michael

Harris, George Washington

Harry Smith collection

Hartford, John

Hatfields and McCoys

Hawk's Nest tunnel

Hay, George D.

Head Start

Health and Retirement Fund

herbal lore

Hicks, David

Hicks, Ray

Hicks, Stanley

Highlander Folk School

hillbilly

Hillbilly Days Festival

Holiness churches.
See also
Pentecostal churches

“holy fairs,” –

home missions

Homestead Act

Hoover, Pres. Herbert

Horn in the West

Hotchkiss, Maj. Jedidiah

House, Silas

household

humor traditions

Humphrey, Sen. Hubert

hunting.
See also
Cherokees

Hutchison, Frank

identity

Imboden, Gen. John D.

immigration of Africans; of Germans ports of entry for Scotch-Irish

industrialization

industrial work

industry

inflation

inns

insiders

inward-looking perspective

iron

ironworks

isolation

Jabbour, Alan

Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,”

jack tales

Jarrell, Tommy

Jim Crow

Job Corps

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Pres. Lyndon B.

Justice, Dick

Keep on the Sunny Side

Kennedy, Pres. John F.

Kentucky Cycle

Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee

Kephart, Horace

King, Stephen

Kingdom of the Happy Land

Kingsolver, Barbara

Kingston Trio

kinship networks

Knoxville, Tenn.

Ku Klux Klan

labor agricultural and mechanization migrant mill and war

Lair, John

land ownership and Scotch-Irish and western lands as payment

language theories

Lanier, Sidney

Lanman, Charles

Lederer, John

Lee, Gen. Robert E.

Lewis, John L.

Lexington, Ky.

Lexington Declaration (resolution)

Lilienthal, David

Lilly Brothers

Lincoln, Abraham

Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada

“Little Kentucky,”

livestock

local-color writers

log construction

Long, Will West

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Lulu Belle

lumber

Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

lynching

lyric songs

Mahone, Gen. William

market economy

Marshall, Catherine

McClellan, Gen. George B.

McCrumb, Sharyn

McGready, James

Merlefest

Methodists

“Midland,”

migration and poverty; shuttle

Miles, Emma Bell

Miller, Arnold

Miller, Jim Wayne

Miners for Democracy

“mine wars,”

Mingo war

missionaries.
See
home missions

Monroe, Bill

Monroe, Charlie

Mooney, James

Morgan, Arthur E.

Morgan, Robert

Mountain Dance and Folk Festival

Murfree, Mary Noailles

Nash, Daniel, Sr.

National Barn Dance

National Recovery Administration

natural resources

New Deal

New Harp of Columbia

New Lost City Ramblers

“New Measures,”

Niles, John Jacob

Norfolk and Western Railroad

Norman, Gurney

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Oconaluftee Village

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

Old Regular Baptists

Old Time Baptists

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Osborne Brothers

“otherness,”

outdoor drama

outsider art

outsiders

outward-looking perspective

Ozark Mountains

Paint and Cabin Creek mine war

Pancake, Breece D'J

Pardo, Juan

Patton, James

Patton, Mrs. J. W.

Peer, Ralph

Pentecostal churches.
See also
Holiness churches

Pietism

Pikeville, Ky.

Plantation of Ireland

Poetics of Appalachian Space

poetry

poverty

Powell, John

Presbyterians

President's Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC)

Primitive Baptists

Proclamation of 1763

Proffitt, Frank

Program

pronunciation

protest songs

“public work,”

Qualla Cherokees

Queen, Sam

quilts.
See also
crafts

race relations

racial violence

radio

railroads construction of and slaves

ramps

Rash, Ron

Reconstruction

Red Cross

redneck

Reece, Florence

regional religion

Republican Party

Ritchie, Jean

roads

Robison, Carson

Rodgers, Jimmie

Roman Catholic Church

Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D.

Rosecrans, Gen. William

Ruffner, Lewis

Ruffner, Mrs.

Rural Electrification Administration

Rylant, Cynthia

Sacred Harp

salt

Saltville, Va.

salvation

School of Living

Scotch-Irish and religion

Scruggs, Earl

secession

sect

Seeger, Mike

segregation

self-sufficiency

Sequoyah (George Gist)

serpent handling

Settle, Mary Lee

“Shakespearean myth,” .
See also
Elizabethan origins of Appalachian speech

shaped notation

Shapiro, Henry D.

Sharp, Cecil

Sharpsburg, battle of

Shelby, Anne

Shelton Laurel massacre

Shenandoah Valley

Sheppard, Muriel Early

Sheridan, Gen. Philip

Sherman, Gen. William T.

Shriners

“shuttle migration.”
See
migration: shuttle

singing schools

slash-and-burn farming

slave labor

slaveowners

slavery African; and Cherokees and the Civil War; and coalmining and goldmining and hiring of slaves and iron; and railroads and salt

slave trade

Smith, Gen. Kirby

Smith, Lee

Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

“South Midland,”

Stanley, Carter

Stanley, Ralph

“stay laws,”

stereotypes and East Tennessee

Still, James

Stoneman, Ernest

Stoneman, Gen. George B.

strikes

strip mining

Strother, David Hunter

Stuart, Jesse

subdenominational churches

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

tall tales

Tawes, Gov. Millard

tenancy

Tennessee Coal and Iron Company

Tennessee Valley Authority

Thomas, Jean

Thomas, William Holland

Thomas Legion

timber

Tom Dooley

trade

Trail of Tears

Treaty of New Echota

Tri-cities

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Ulster

unchurched, the

Underwood, Gov. Cecil

Union Carbide Corporation

unions

United Mine Workers of America

Unto These Hills

urban life

urban-suburban exchanges

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

vocabulary

Voices from the Hills

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

wage labor

Wagner Act of 1935

Wallerstein, Immanuel

Wallin, Doug

War on Poverty

Washington, Booker T.

Watson, Arthel “Doc,”

Weatherford, Willis D.

Weaver, William

weaving

Weller, Jack

Western North Carolina Railroad

West Virginia primary

Wheeling (W.Va.) Convention

Whisman, John

White Top Mountain Folk Festival

Whitter, Henry

Wiggins, Ella May

wild plants

Wildwood Flower

Williams, Cratis

Williams, Nancy

Williams, Sally

Williams, Sam

Williamson, J. W.

Wise, Chubby

Wiseman, Scott

WLS

Wolfe, Thomas

womanless wedding

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

World War II

WSM

WWVA

yeoman farmers

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