WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Agriculture and Land Use

Algeo, Katie. 1997. “The Rise of Tobacco as a Southern Appalachian Staple: Madison County, North Carolina” [1870s to present]. Southeastern Geographer 37 (May): 46-60.

Amberg, Rob. 1997. “Tobacco: ‘...You Had to Do Something to Live...’: An Interview with Dellie Norton” [1899?-1993; Madison County, N.C.]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1 , ed. R. S. Brunk, 124-137. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Anderson, Annette. 2002. “ Pittman Center, Tennessee: Planning with Citizens for Sustainable Development” [least developed gateway to Great Smoky Mountains]. In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, ed. B. Howell, 182-193. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Anderson, Belinda. 1999. “Going to the State Fair with the Tuckwillers: ‘Something for Everybody’” [Greenbrier Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Summer): 30-39.

Atkins, Anna B. Shue. 1999. “‘She Didn’t Go Sangin’ Alone!’” [ Droop Mountain; herb gathering; reminiscence]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 27-29.

Bartemes, David W. 2001. “Don Bosco: Agricultural Education in Randolph County” [1950s reminiscences of a 500-acre vocational working farm and rural Catholic school run by priests]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Spring): 32-37.

Beeson, Lillian Poe. 2000. “Butchering As Ritual” [hog butchering; Barbour Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Winter): 58-61.

Berry, Wendell. 2003. Citizenship Papers [19 essays]. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 189 pp.

Berry, Wendell. 2004. “A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry” [on his Ky. farm]. Interview by Jim Minick. Appalachian Journal (Spring/Summer): 300-313.

Best, Bill. 1998. “Heirloom Beans” [merits of; 18 types characterized]. Appalachian Heritage 26 (Winter): 6-14.

Best, Bill. 1998. “Heirloom Tomatoes” [types, varieties, anecdotes]. Appalachian Heritage 26 (Fall): 19-29.

Best, Bill. 2000. “Returning to Sustainability in Appalachia” [insights; rules]. Appalachian Heritage 28 (Winter): 21-28.

Best, Michael. 1998. “Sustainable Agriculture for Appalachia” [cultural, environmental, and financial factors]. Appalachian Heritage 26 (Fall): 30-33.

Best, Michael. 2000. “Direct Marketing Hogs in Southern Appalachia.” Appalachian Heritage 28 (Fall): 13-17.

Billings , Dwight, and Kathleen M. Blee. 1995. “Agriculture and Poverty in the Kentucky Mountains: Beech Creek, 1850-1910.” In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 233-269. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Birdsall, Stephen S. 2001. “Tobacco Farmers and Landscape Change in North Carolina’s Old Belt Region.” Southeastern Geographer 41 (May): 65-73.

Bourne, Joel. 2000. “On the Trail of the ‘Sang Poachers” [ginseng]. Audubon 102 (March/April): 84-90.

Brunn, Stanley D. 2001. “Citizen Reaction to a Proposed Time Zone Boundary Change in Kentucky: Juxtaposing Boundaries on the Land / In the Mind” [Wayne Co.]. Southeastern Geographer 41 (November): 246-258.

Buckley, Geoffrey L., Timothy G. Anderson, and Nancy R. Bain. 2000. “Living on the Fringe: A Geographic Profile of Appalachian Ohio.” In A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 140-147. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Carlisle, Fred. 1999. “Mark Givens: The Last Full-Time Farmer in Clover Hollow” [Giles Co., Va.; profile]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Summer): 12-16.

Clayton, Richard R. 1995. Marijuana in the "Third World": Appalachia, U.S.A. Prepared for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, and the United Nations University, Tokyo. Studies on the Impact of the Illegal Drug Trade, vol. 5. Boulder, Colo.: Lynn Rienner Publishers. 123 pp.

Colyer, Dale. 2001. “Changes in Appalachian Agriculture: 1965-2000” [county outline maps; tables]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Fall): 349-374.

Core, Earl L. 1999 [1975]. “Goldenseal” [medicinal herb]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 22-23. Reprint, originally published vol. 1, no. 1.

Crawford, Martin. 1994. "Mountain Farmers and the Market Economy: Ashe County During the 1850s." North Carolina Historical Review 71 (October): 430-450.

Davis, Emili. 1996. “Bob Massee: ‘I Was Born in the Apple Business’” [Rabun Co., Ga.; apple orchards; oral history]. Foxfire Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter): 107-118.

Davis, Jenna, Howard Prater, and George Prater. 1999. “The Praters’ Bees” [Rabun Co., Ga.; interview with beekeepers]. Foxfire Magazine 33 (Spring/Summer): 68-76.

Dickerson, Leah, Beth Shirley, and Laurence Holden. 1999. “Barker’s Creek Grist Mill Revisited” [Rabun Co., Ga.; student interview with Holden who explains the milling process]. Foxfire Magazine 33 (Spring/Summer): 49-53.

Duncan, Barbara R. 1997. “American Ginseng in Western North Carolina: A Cross-Cultural Examination” [Cherokee; European; Appalachian; African-American]. In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 201-213. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Feather, Carl E. 2001. “A Fence Full of Apples: Espalier in Sistersville” [orchards]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 19-21.

Feather, Carl E. 2001. “Apple Royalty: Berkeley County’s Miller Family” [apple orcharding history]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 6-13.

Feather, Carl E. 2001. “Heirloom Apples” [Raleigh Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Summer): 14-18.

Forestry in the South [six articles]. 2002. Guest editor, Don Voth. Southern Rural Sociology 18, no. 2: 1-131.

Garrett, Martin A., Jr. 1998. “Evidence on the Use of Oxen in the Postbellum South” [farming and timbering]. Social Science History 22 (Summer): 225-249.

Gerstell, Richard. 1998. American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Three-Hundred Year History [conservation and cultural history; Pa., N.Y., Md.]. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 217 pp.

Grantham, Kelli. 1998. “The Butternut Tree” [fungal disease-threatened; interview with three forestry researchers]. Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 10-16.

Gray, Elmer. 1999. “Preservation and Utilization of Appalachian Crop Germ Plasm” [case for Appalachian seed bank]. Appalachian Heritage 27 (Fall): 35-43.

Gregory, Michael M. 2002. “Exploring 250 Years of Land Use in Western Virginia: Viewing a Landscape through Artifacts, Documents, and Oral History” [ Denmark community of Rockbridge Co.]. In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, ed. B. Howell, 60-81. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Hall, James Baker, and Wendell Berry. 2004. Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy [duotone photographs, 1973 Henry Co., Ky.]. Photographs by James Baker Hall; essay by Wendell Berry. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 78 pp.

Halweil, Brian. 2003. “The Smoke Clears: Ex-Tobacco Farmers Kick the Habit and Go Organic.” E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine 14 (July/August): 23-25.

Halweil, Brian. 2003. “This Old Barn, This New Money” [shift to organic crops by tobacco farmers; Appalachian Sustainable Development, nonprofit group]. World Watch 16 (July/August): 24-29.

Harless, Marion. 1999. “In Search of Wild Goldenseal” [yellowroot]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 24-26.

Hatch, Elvin. 2003. “Delivering the Goods: Cash, Subsistence Farms, and Identity in a Blue Ridge County in the 1930s” [N.C.]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Spring): 6-47.

Hopkins, James F., with a foreword by Thomas D. Clark. 1998 [1951]. A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky [1840s peak; updated bibliography]. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Howell, Eck. 1998. “‘We Drove Cattle from Beverly to Osceola’” [1930s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 51-55.

Hufford, Mary. 1997. “American Ginseng and the Idea of the Commons” [”a vernacular cultural domain that transcends state boundaries”; Southern W.Va.]. Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 19 nos. 1 and 2 (Winter-Spring): 1-18.

Hundley, Kathy O. Smith. 2004. “Guy Kelley: The Beekeeper of Bloomingrose” [Boone Co.; 55 years experience]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Summer): 38-45.

Huso, Deborah R. 2003. “The Taste of Earth” [in praise of Blue Ridge family farmlife]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20 (Spring): 22-23.

Johannsen, Kristin L. 2002. “Root Rustlers” [ginseng; poaching]. Mother Jones 27 (July/August): 18.

Keller, Kenneth W. 2000. “The Wheat Trade on the Upper Potomac, 1800-1860" [western Va.; Md.; Pa.]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 21-33. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Kilbourne, Carl G. 2000. “A New Sustainable Cash Crop for Mountain Farmers” [hardwood tree farming]. Appalachian Heritage 28 (Spring): 13-18.

Koons, Kenneth E. 2000. “‘The Staple of Our Country’: Wheat in the Regional Farm Economy of the Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia” [ Shenandoah Valley]. In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 3-20. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Lafferty, Patricia Black. 2001. “Obert Parsons: Boone County Apple Expert” [70-year-old; on planting, grafting, growing trees, and making apple butter]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 22-25.

LaLone, Mary B., Peg Wimmer, and Reva K. Spence, eds. 2003. Appalachian Farming Life: Memories and Perspectives on Family Farming in Virginia's New River Valley [30 oral history interviews]. Radford, Va.: Brightside Press. 428 pp.

Link, Doris Lucas, David Brady, and Nancy Kate Givens. 2002. “Defending the Community: Citizen Involvement in Impact Assessment and Cultural Heritage Conservation” [Giles Co., Va.; fighting proposed power line route; cultural, genealogical attachment to place]. In Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, ed. B. Howell, 137-152. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Lutts, Ralph H. 2004. “Like Manna From God: The American Chestnut Trade in Southwestern Virginia” [1900-1930; commons, blight, disappearance]. Environmental History 9 (July): 497-525.

Mannon, Anita G. 2001. Work Horse Tales: Adventures in the Forests of Appalachia [impressions of Suffolks trained for horselogging; Va. Blue Ridge]. Philadelphia: Xlibris. 114 pp.

Marra, John L. 1997. “Ben Gravely’s Garden Tractor” [story of Gravely Motor Plow and Cultivator Company, founded 1922, Dunbar, W.Va.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Summer): 26-35.

McDaniel, Lynda. 2001. “Growing for the Future: Appalachian Harvest” [ Va.; Appalachian Sustainable Development; organic, value-added fruits, vegetables; forestry]. Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 34 (September-December): 10-17.

Miller, E. Willard. 2000. “The Evolution of Rural Villages in Western Pennsylvania.” In A Geographic Perspective of Pittsburgh and the Alleghenies: From Precambrian to Post-Industrial, eds. K. Patrick and J. Scarpaci, 125-132. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Millimet, Lisa Gray. 1997. “‘All They Knew Was Pull and Get It’: Daniel Richmond About Then and Now” [interview; training draft steer; homesteading in Raleigh Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Summer): 10-17.

Milnes, Gerald. 1999 [1984]. “‘Boy, That Was a Fine Bean!’: A Harvesttime Interview with an Old-Fashioned Gardener” [Ruby Morris, Braxton Co.; heirloom vegetables]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 10-17. Reprint, originally published vol. 10, no. 3.

Milnes, Gerald. 1999 [1984]. “Seed Saving” [heirloom vegetables]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 18-20. Reprint, originally published vol. 10, no. 3.

Milnes, Gerald. 1999. Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 211 pp.

Mt. Pleasant, Jane. 1998. “The Three Sisters” [Native-American cropping systems in Appalachian N.Y.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 25 (Spring): 26-29.

Napton, Darrell, Terry L. Sohl, and Roger F. Auch. 2003. “Land Use and Land Cover Change in the North Central Appalachians Ecoregion” [northern Pa., southern N.Y.]. Pennsylvania Geographer 41 (Fall/Winter): 46-66.

Nickens, T. Edward. 2001. “Catching Bandits in the Smokies” [ginseng poachers]. National Wildlife 39 (February/March): 34-39.

Nolt, John. 2001. “Living Sustainably Appalachian Style” [ East Tenn. family]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter): 3-6.

Peterson, Ronan K. 1995. “Sanging in Poplar, North Carolina: Zelotes Peterson, Ginseng Hunter.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 42 (Winter-Spring): 53-61.

Pritts, Kim Derek. 1996. Ginseng: How to Find, Grow, and Use America's Forest Gold. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 160 pp.

Rasmussen, Barbara. 1994. Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 222 pp.

Salstrom, Paul. 2003. “The Neonatives: Back-to-the-Land in Appalachia’s 1970’s.” Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 308-323.

Shambaugh, Helen Bradfield. 2001. “Apple Butter Time” [local history how-to; Morgan Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 26-29.

Smith, Kimberly K. 2003. Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace. American Political Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 270 pp.

Spears, James. 1996. "Of Mules and Men." [all about mules; bibliography]. Special issue. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 58 (no. 1): 1-45.

Stutler, Judith. 1997. “Randolph County Horsepower” [environmentally friendly logging with Percheron draft horses]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Summer): 18-19.

Taylor, David. 2002. “Getting to the Root of Ginseng” [ W.Va.; health aspects]. Smithsonian 33 (July): 98-102.

Tevis, Jamie Griggs. 2001. “Tobacco” [reminiscences of cash crop tending; Ky.]. Appalachian Heritage 29 (Winter): 12-15.

Walker, Melissa. 1998. “Farm Wives and Commercial Farming: The Case of Loudon County, Tennessee.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 57 (Spring/Summer): 42-61.

Walker, Melissa. 2000. “Culling the Men Out from the Boys: Concepts of Success in the Recollections of a Southern Farmer” [Depression-era Blount Co., Tenn.]. Oral History Review 27 (Summer/Fall): 1-18.

Whitcomb, Robert, and Judith Whitcomb. 1998. “Mountain Cattle Drives” [1940s-50s Randolph Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 48-50.

White, John. 2003. “Early Life on the Nuzum Dairy Farm” [interview with Pauline Nuzum Burns, b. 1904; Harrison Co. family dairy]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Spring): 38-43.

Woodside, Jane Harris. 2001. “Planting a New Industry in the North Carolina Mountains” [Graham Co.; using native plants, wildcrafting, as economic development strategy]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 18 (Winter): 7-10.

Yarnell, Susan L. 1998. The Southern Appalachians: A History of the Landscape [prehistory to 20 th century]. General Technical Report SRS, no. 18. Asheville, N.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 45 pp. Online at http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.jsp?index=331.