WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Description and Travel, Recreation and Sports

Ackerman, Jennifer. 1997. “A Grand Allegheny Resort” [The Homestead; Hot Springs, Va.; built 1766]. New York Times 6 April, 12, 16, sec. 5.

Adamich, Tom. 2003. “‘The Dirt Was Flying’: Racing Pioneer Dave Kurtz” [1950s stock car racer]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Summer): 38-44.

Adams, Charles S., comp, ed. 1997. Roadside Markers in West Virginia [text of 820 markers]. Revised edition, published by Charles S. Adams, 201 Ryan Ct., Shepherdstown, W.Va. 25443. 92 pp.

Adams, Kevin. 1994. North Carolina Waterfalls: Where to Find Them, How to Photograph Them. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair. 208 pp.

Adams, Kevin. 2002. Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia: A Hiking and Photography Guide [200 falls]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 256 pp.

Adams, Kevin. 2003. Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park [80 hikes detailed]. Guilford, Conn.: Falcon. 287 pp.

Adams, Noah. 2001. Far Appalachia: Following the New River North [N.C.-Va.-W.Va.; travelogue]. New York: Delacorte Press. 238 pp.

Adkins, Leonard M. 2000. Fifty Hikes in Maryland: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks from the Allegheny Plateau to the Atlantic Ocean. Woodstock, Vt.: Backcountry Guides. 287 pp.

Adkins, Leonard M. 2000. Fifty Hikes in Northern Virginia: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks from the Allegheny Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay. Second edition. Woodstock, Vt.: Backcountry Guides. 287 pp.

Adkins, Leonard M. 2002. Fifty Hikes in Southern Virginia: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks from the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean. Woodstock, Vt.: Backcountry Guides. 302 pp.

Adkins, Leonard M. 2002. Maryland: An Explorer’s Guide [incl. “Mountains of Western Maryland”]. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press. 494 pp.

Adkins, Leonard M. 2003. Walking the Blue Ridge: A Guide to the Trails of the Blue Ridge Parkway [100 hikes over 70 trails]. Third edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 242 pp.

Alderman, J. Anthony. 1997. Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway [guidebook]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 136 pp.

Allen, James Lane. 2004 [1886]. “Through the Cumberland Gap on Horseback” [Burnside, Cumberland Falls, Williamsburg, Barbourville, Pineville, Yellow Creek, Ky.; Cumberland Gap, Tenn.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 249-274. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Harper’s Monthly 73 (June 1886): 50-66.

Anderson, Colleen. 1998. The New West Virginia One-Day Trip Book: More Than 200 Affordable Adventures in the Mountain State. McLean, Va.: EPM Publications. 336 pp.

Andrews, James and Kenneth Wise. 1997. The Best Overnight Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 104 pp.

Appalachian Trail on My Mind [collected color photos; various photographers; literary captions]. 2002. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press. 96 pp.

Appalachian Whitewater: The Southern States . Third edition. 1997. Birmingham: Menasha Ridge Press. 256 pp.

Bailey, Barbara Copenhaver. 2003. “Brooke County Trapping” [1940s-50s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Winter): 49-51.

Bannon, James. 1997. West Virginia: A Guide to Backcountry Travel & Adventure. Asheville: Out There Press. 264 pp.

Barrell, Allison. 2004. “‘Bring Your Own Towel’: Nudism, Federal Courts, and the Timberline Lodge” [ Tenn. nudist resort]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 323-333. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Barrick, Michael. 1998. “The Hillbilly Highway” [people and places along Interstate 77, W.Va. to N.C.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Winter): 21-24.

Becker, Carl M. 1998. Home and Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio River, 1919-1934 [ Portsmouth and Ironton, Ohio, and Ashland, Ky.]. Athens: Ohio University Press. 367 pp.

Becker, Carl. 1999. “‘Beat the Tanks’: A Chronicle of the Ashland Armcos, 1925-30” [ Ky., Ohio; early, semi-professional football]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 97 (Autumn): 403-443.

Bolgiano, Chris. 1997. “Trailing Lonesome Pines” [Big Stone Gap, Va.; Breaks Interstate Park, Ky. and Va.; and setting for novelist John Fox Jr.]. New York Times 6 April, 13-14, sec. 5.

Borowiec, Andrew. 2000. Along the Ohio [ Ohio River Valley; 80 duotone photos]. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 128 pp.

Brill, David. 2003 [1990]. As Far as the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 190 pp. Originally published, Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press.

Bruce, Dan. 2001. The Thru-Hiker’s Handbook: Georgia to Maine 2001: #1 Guide for Long-Distance Hikes on the Appalachian Trail. Eleventh edition. Hot Springs, N.C.: Center for Appalachian Trail Studies. 173 pp.

Bryson, Bill. 1998. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail[more humor than guidebook]. New York: Broadway Books. 288 pp.

Buhite, Russell D. 2004. “The Continental League and Its Western Carolina League Affiliate: Branch Rickey’s Second Finest Hour” [eight minor league teams/towns]. North Carolina Historical Review 81 (October): 426-460.

Bunce, Oliver Bell. 2004 [1871]. “On Lookout Mountain (with Illustrations by Harry Fenn)” [ Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Rock City, Tenn.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 59-69. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Appleton’s Journal 6 (26 Aug. 1871): 238-242.

Burnett, John. 2004. “Fishing in Berwind” [details 1950s boyhood creek-fishing, McDowell Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Summer): 46-49.

Carpenter, Frank O. 2004 [1890]. “The Great Smoky Mountains and Thunderhead Peak” [ Maryville, Tuckaleechee Cove (Townsend), Thunderhead Mountain ( Great Smoky Mountains National Park), Tenn./N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 331-339. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Appalachia 6 (Dec. 1890): 138-146.

Carroll, Steven, and Mark Miller. 2003. Hiking, West Virginia [70 trails guidebook]. Guilford, Conn.: Falcon. 258 pp.

Casto, James E., and Gerald S. Ratliff. West Virginia: Mountain Majesty. [photographs] Charleston, W.Va.: West Virginia Division of Culture and History. 260 pp.

Cater, Steve. 1996. New River Gorge Trail Guide: Hiking and Biking Trails of the New River Gorge Area, Cranberry Glades and the Greenbrier Trail [ W.Va.]. Fayetteville, W.Va.: King Coal Propaganda. 92 pp.

Chambers, Thomas A. 2002. Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs [ White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; Saratoga Springs, N.Y.]. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 282 pp.

Clauson-Wicker, Su. 2000. Inn-to-Inn Walking Guide: Virginia and West Virginia [20 hikes]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 199 pp.

Clauson-Wicker, Su. 2002. “Riding Route 52: The Old Coal Road” [ Bluefield to Williamson, 95 miles]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Spring): 10-19.

Connelly, John. 1999. Appalachian Whitewater: The Northern States. Third edition. [guidebook includes N.Y., Pa., Md., and W.Va.]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 258 pp.

Conte, Robert S. 1998 [1989]. The History of the Greenbrier: America’s Resort [five star hotel; White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.]. Revised edition. Charleston, W.Va.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. 333 pp.

Cook, Joe, and Monica Cook. 2000. River Song: A Journey Down the Cattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers [200 photographs; North Ga. source]. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 224 pp.

Cooke, George. 2004 [1840]. “Sketches of Georgia” [Habersham Co., Tallulah Gorge, Toccoa Falls, Mt. Yonah, Clarkesville, Dahlonega, Athens]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 41-48. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Southern Literary Messenger 6 (Nov. 1840): 775-777.

Cordes, Kathleen Ann. 2001. America’s National Scenic Trails [incl. Appalachian and Potomac]. Photographs by Jane Lammers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 384 pp.

Cottrill, David. 2004. “Oakhurst Links: Golfing the Old-Time Way” [Greenbrier Co.; home to America’s first organized golf club in the 1880s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Summer): 62-65.

Czarnecki, Greg, and Karen Czarnecki. 1999. Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Pennsylvania Mountains [detailed guidebook; five subregions; maps]. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press. 306 pp.

Davidson, Paul, Ward Eister, Dirk Davidson, and Charlie Walbridge. [1972] 1995. Wildwater West Virginia, Fourth Edition. Birmingham: Menasha Ridge Press. 283 pp.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. 2004 [1875]. “The Yares of the Black Mountains” [Old Fort, Asheville, North Fork Valley (Swannanoa), N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 173-192. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Lippincott’s 16 (July 1875): 35-47. Reprint in Silhouettes of American Life, New York: Scribner’s, 1892.

De Hart, Allen, and Bruce Sundquist. 1999. Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide. Seventh edition. Charleston, W.Va.: West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. 342 pp.

De Hart, Allen. 1995 [1984] . The Trails of Virginia: Hiking the Old Dominion. Revised edition, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 421 pp.

De Hart, Allen. 1996. North Carolina Hiking Trails. Third edition. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club. 512 pp.

De Hart, Allen. 1997. West Virginia Hiking Trails: Hiking the Mountain State [guidebook]. Second edition. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club. 416 pp.

De Hart, Allen. 2000. Hiking North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 371 pp.

Deeds, Jean. 1996. There Are Mountains to Climb [thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail at 51]. Indianapolis: Silverwood Press. 216 pp.

DeLeon, Clark. 2001. Pennsylvania Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Curiosities Series. Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press. 207 pp.

Dimmock, George. 2004 [1877]. “A Trip to Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina” [Wolf Creek, Tenn.; Warm Springs (Hot Springs), Marshall, Asheville, North Fork (Swannanoa) Valley, Mount Mitchell, N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 319-329. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Appalachia 1 (June 1877): 141-151.

Driver, David. 1998. “The Pride of Nitro: Baseball Star Lew Burdette” [1957 World Series pitcher]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 56-63.

Du Bois, W. E. B. 2004 [1899]. “A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South” [ Nashville, Lebanon, Watertown, Tenn.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 295-304. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Atlantic Monthly 83 (Jan. 1899): 99-105.

Earls, Stephanie. 1997. “A King-Sized Reunion: Capon Springs Resort” [history of Hampshire Co. mineral springs]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 23 (Spring): 9-17.

Emblidge, David, ed. 1996. The Appalachian Trail Reader. [excerpts from essays, journals, diaries, poems] New York: Oxford University Press. 382 pp.

Fazio, Wende. 2000. West Virginia [juvenile literature]. America the Beautiful. Second series. New York: Children’s Press. 144 pp.

Feather, Carl E. 2000. “Our Lady of the Pines: The Small Church With a Big Heart” [Preston Co.; “smallest church in 48 states”]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Spring): 52-57.

Field , Harold . 1998. “Our Cruise on the South Branch: The Log Book, July 13-27, 1919" [canoeing the South Branch of the Potomac River]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 9-17.

Fields, Jay, and Brad Campbell. 2003 [1996, 1998]. The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina [directory; Contents: Blue Ridge Parkway -- Penland Craft School -- Southern Highland Craft Guild -- Urban Trail -- Biltmore and Craft -- Haywood Community College -- John C. Campbell Folk School]. Third edition. Asheville, N.C.: HandMade in America. 237 pp.

Finley, Lori. 1994. Mountain Biking the Appalachians: Northwest North Carolina/Southwest Virginia. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair. 191 pp.

Fisher, Ron; photographs by Richard Alexander Cooke III. 1998 [1992]. Blue Ridge Range: The Gentle Mountains. Second edition. National Geographic Park Profiles. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society. 199 pp.

Fisher, Ronald M. 1997. “On the Trail” [Va.; Appalachian Trail; Mount Rogers National Recreation Area; Rhododendron Gap]. Audubon 99 (March/April): 32-33.

Forest, G. (Gil). 1994. Great Adventures in the Southern Appalachians. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair. 235 pp.

Frankenburg, Dirk, ed. 2000. Exploring North Carolina’s Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking Trails [38 driving “eco-tours”]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 544 pp.

Garrett County Historical Society, comp. Ghost Towns of the Upper Potomac [W.Va.-Md.]. Oakland, Md.: Garrett County Historical Museum. 44 pp.

Garvey, Edward B. 1997. The New Appalachian Trail [guidebook, and veteran through-hiker’s account at 75]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 256 pp.

Georgia Appalachian Trail Club. 1997 [1995, 1981]. Friendships of the Trail: The History of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, 1930-1980. Harpers Ferry, W.Va.: Appalachian Trail Conference. Previously published, Atlanta: The Club.

Gildart, Bert, and Jane Gildart. 1998. Hiking Shenandoah National Park [guidebook]. Helena, Mont.: Falcon Publishing Company. 189 pp.

Goldsmith, C. Franklin, Shannon Hamrick, and H. James Hamrick. 2000. The Best Hikes of Pisgah National Forest [N.C.; 50 day hikes]. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair Publisher. 256 pp.

Gooch, Bob. 2004. Lake Fishing in Virginia [guidebook to 32 lakes; 5 in Southwestern Va.]. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 152 pp.

Gordon, Joan Morse. 2002. The Road Taken: A Journey in Time Down Pennsylvania Route 45 [central Pa.]. Pittsburgh: Local History Company. 184 pp.

Gove, Doris. 1998. Hikes in the Southern Appalachians: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee [32 day hikes]. Exploring the Appalachian Trail. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 381 pp.

Grafton, Emily. 2003. West Virginia Adventure Guide to the Natural History of Blackwater Falls State Park. Terra Alta, W.Va.: Headline Books. 224 pp.

Hagebak, Hawk. 2001. Motorcycle Adventures: North Georgia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee. Almond, N.C.: Milestone Press. 144 pp.

Hall, Adrienne. 2000. A Journey North: One Woman’s Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail [Ga. to Me.]. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club Books. 224 pp.

Hall, Randal L. 2002. “Before NASCAR: The Corporate and Civic Promotion of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927.” The Journal of Southern History 68 (August): 629-668.

Hammond, Mary Ellen, and Jim Parham. 1999. Natural Adventures in the Mountains of Western North Carolina [50 outdoor activities]. Almond, N.C.: Milestone Press. 144 pp.

Hammond, Mary Ellen, and Jim Parham. 2000. Natural Adventures in the Mountains of North Georgia [guidebook]. Almond, N.C.: Milestone Press. 144 pp.

Hansen, Dorothy. 2001. “A Walk in the Woods” [Appalachian Trail thru-hiker]. Interview by Adam Hunter. Foxfire Magazine 35 (Fall/Winter): 141-152.

Hargan, Jim. 2002. The Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains: An Explorer’s Guide. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press. 464 pp.

Harney, William Wallace. 2004 [1873]. “A Strange Land and a Peculiar People” [Cumberland Gap Region: Southeastern Ky., East Tenn.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 217-232. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Lippincott’s 12 (Oct. 1873): 429-438.

Harris, Nathan, Shannon Carey, and Berhard Gross. 2001. “Essential Great Smokies: An Insider’s Guide to the National Park.” National Geographic Traveler 18 (May/June): 100-109.

Hart, David. 2002. Flyfisher’s Guide to Virginia: Including West Virginia’s Best Fly Waters. Belgrade, Mont.: Wilderness Adventures Press. 600 pp.

Hastings, Anne M. 1997. “Fox Hunting: History and Change in a Mountain Sport” [Watauga Co., N.C. focus]. Appalachian Journal 25 (Fall): 30-46.

Henderson, Catherine. 1996. Fairs, Festivals & Funnin’ in West Virginia [guidebook; by month]. St. Albans, W.Va.: H & H Publications. 330 pp.

Higgs, Robert J. 1996. "What Is an Arena Like Neyland Stadium Doing in a Place Like Appalachia?" [University of Tennessee] Appalachian Heritage 24 (Spring): 30-39.

Hinkel, James R. 1998. Parkway Byways: Explore the Charming Countryside Close to the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Shenandoah National Park, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park [describes 19 loop trips]. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers. 227 pp.

Homan, Tim. 1998. The Hiking Trails of Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock and Citico Creek Wildernesses [Nantahala National Forest, N.C.; Cherokee National Forest, Tenn.]. Second edition. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers. 228 pp.

Homan, Tim. 2002. Hiking Trails of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness, Ellicott Rock Wilderness, and Chattooga National Wild and Scenic River. Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers. 261 pp.

Homan, Tim. 2004. Hiking the Benton Mackaye Trail: A Guide to the Benton MacKaye Trail from Georgia’s Springer Mountain to Tennessee’s Ocoee River. Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers. 276 pp.

Hood, Mary. 1996. “Tropic of Conscience” [history of northwest Ga.; Cherokee Removal]. In The New Georgia Guide, 105-135. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Horn, Peter Joseph, Jr., and Bill Tanner. 1999. “Tallulah Whitewater” [Tallulah Gorge, Ga., class four and five rapids; interview with park superintendent Tanner]. Foxfire Magazine 33 (Fall/Winter): 83-91.

Horst, Eric J. 2001. Rock Climbing: Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland [guidebook: 1200 routes, 23 areas]. Guilford, Conn.: Falcon. 420 pp.

Howes, Jay, and Christine Goldbeck. 2002. “The Remarkable Baseball Career of Pete Gray” [b. Nanticoke, Pa.; 1915-2002; one-armed player for 1940s St. Louis Browns]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 19 (Winter): 18-19.

Huddle, David. 2001. “Hamlet in the Hills” [Ivanhoe, Va.]. Preservation (National Trust for Historic Preservation) 53 (May/June): 22-27.

Hudson, Jim. 1996. Rail Trails Along the Greenbrier River. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 116 pp.

Hugo, Beverly. 2000. Women & Thru-Hiking on the Appalachian Trail: Practical Advice from Hundreds of Women Long Distance Hikers. Sevierville, Tenn.: Insight Publishing. 180 pp.

Hutchins, Frank. 1995. Mountain Biking in West Virginia. Charleston: Quarrier Press. 193 pp.

Ingram, Bruce. 2002. The New River Guide [fishing; W.Va., Va.]. Corvallis, Ore.: Ecopress. 174 pp.

Inscoe, John C. 1996. “Appalachian Otherness, Real and Perceived” [history of northeast Ga.]. In The New Georgia Guide, 165-203. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Jacobs, Jimmy. 2001. Trout Streams of Southern Appalachia: Fly-Casting in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Second edition. Woodstock, Vt.: Backcountry Guides. 336 pp.

Jenkins, Gary C. 2001. “Canoeing the Tennessee in Modern Times: Travel Journals of the River Before the Tennessee Valley Authority” [1927-1930; Newport, Tenn. to Chattanooga; Chattanooga to Florence, Ala.]. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Summer): 90-107.

Johann, Margaret. 2004 [1897]. “A Little Moonshiner” [Western N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 285-294. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Christian Observer 85 (21 July, 1897): 700-701.

Jones, Louise Coffin. 2004 [1879]. “In the Backwoods of Carolina” [Greensboro, Boone Trail, Upper Yadkin River Valley (Yadkin or Wilkes Co.), N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 233-248. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Lippincott’s 24 (Dec. 1879): 747-756.

Jones, Steve. 1999. Mountain Bike! The Southern Appalachian and Smoky Mountains: A Guide to the Classic Trails. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 331 pp.

Keith, Jeanette. 2004. “Good Times: Vacationing at Red Boiling Springs” [Macon Co., Tenn.; 1920s-1940s]. In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, eds. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 178-195. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Kennedy, Philip Pendleton. 2002 [1853]. The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, (West) Virginia. Illustrated by David Hunter Strother. Reprint, edited with a preface by Timothy Sweet. West Virginia and Appalachia, no. 2. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. Originally published, New York: Redfield.

Kurutz, Steven. 2004. “Harlan County A.T.V.” [organized off-road riding]. New York Times, 17 December, 1(F). 20 paras.

Kyle, Gerard, Alan Graefe, Robert Manning, and James Bacon. 2003. “An Examination of the Relationship between Leisure Activity Involvement and Place Attachment among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail” [tables]. Journal of Leisure Research 35, no. 3: 249-273.

Lanman, Charles. 2004 [1848]. “Dahlonega (Letters from the Alleghany Mountains)” [Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Union Co., Ga.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 49-57. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Daily National Intelligencer, 3 May 1848, 3.

Lantz, Bob. 2003. Tennessee Rivers: A Paddler’s Guidebook [updates A Canoeing and Kayaking Guide to the Streams of Tennessee, by Bob Sehlinger and Bob Lantz. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press, 1983]. Outdoor Tennessee Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 214 pp.

Lawrence, H. Lea. 1998. The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House. 181 pp.

Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer. 2002. Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860 [Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains]. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 293 pp.

Lewis, Jehu. 2004 [1873]. “The Grandfather of North Carolina” [Lenoir (Lower Creek Valley), Johns River Valley, The Globe, Grandfather Mountain, N.C.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 307-317. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Lakeside Monthly 10 (Sept. 1873): 218-224.

Lillard, David and Gwyn Hicks. 1998. Hikes in the Virginias: Virginia, West Virginia [45 day hikes]. Exploring the Appalachian Trail. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 416 pp.

Lillard, David Edwin. 2002. Appalachian Trail Names: Origins of Place Names Along the AT [1100 names]. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole. 148 pp.

Lloyd, Theresa. 1998. “‘In Your Blood’: Wagon Training through Southern Appalachia” [modern teamsters; pioneer lore]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15 (Winter): 33-36.

Lloyd, Theresa. 2004. “Going to the Mountain: Vincent Parker’s Last Wagon Train” [Western North Carolina Wagon Train tradition, since 1950s]. In CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 325-335. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.

Logue, Victoria, and Frank Logue. 1997. Touring the Backroads of North and South Georgia. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair. 459 pp.

Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains [detailed guidebook; four subregions; maps]. 2000 [1987]. By the Georgia Conservancy, with Fred Brown and Nell Jones. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press. 272 pp. Originally titled The Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains.

Lowther, Mic. 2000. Walking North [family hikes the Appalachian Trail]. Seattle, Wash.: Elton-Wolf Publishing. 367 pp.

Luty, Bronsen B. 1997. “Motoring to Conneaut Lake: A Memoir” [1914 route northward from Pittsburgh toward Erie on unpaved roads]. Pittsburgh History 80 (Spring): 8-24.

Manning, Russ. 1999. One Hundred Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Second edition. Seattle, Wash.: Mountaineers. 272 pp.

Manning, Russ. 1999. The Historic Cumberland Plateau: An Explorer’s Guide. Second edition. Outdoor Tennessee Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 344 pp.

Manning, Russ. 2000. Forty Hikes in Tennessee’s South Cumberland. Third edition. Seattle, Wash.: Mountaineers. 112 pp.

Manning, Russ. 2000. One Hundred Trails of the Big South Fork: Tennessee and Kentucky. Fourth edition. Seattle, Wash.: Mountaineers. 237 pp.

Manning, Russ. 2000. Seventy Five Hikes in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. Second edition. Seattle, Wash.: Mountaineers. 192 pp.

Marking Our Past: West Virginia’s Historical Highway Markers [guidebook]. 2002. Charleston: West Virginia Division of Culture and History. 209 pp.

Marshall, Ian. 1998. Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail [fiction and nonfiction; over three centuries]. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 336 pp.

Martin, Douglas. 2002. “Earl Shaffer, First to Hike Length of Appalachian Trail in Both Directions, Dies at 83.” New York Times, 12 May, 33(sec. 1).

McDade, Arthur. 2000. The Natural Arches of the Big South Fork: A Guide to Selected Landforms [Ky./Tenn; hiking guidebook]. Outdoor Tennessee Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 109 pp.

McDaniel, Lynda. 1998. Highroad Guide to the North Carolina Mountains [detailed guidebook; eight subregions; maps]. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press. 308 pp.

Menzer, Joe. 2001. The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR (or, How a Bunch of Good Ol' Boys Built a Billion-Dollar Industry Out Of Wrecking Cars). New York: Simon & Schuster. 331 pp.

Meriwether, Lee. 2004 [1888]. “Mountain Life in Tennessee” [Memphis to Tusculum; Camp Creek area of Greene Co.]. In Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900, eds. K. O’Donnell and H. Hollingsworth, 275-284. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Originally published, Cosmopolitan 4 (Feb. 1888): 456-460.

Miner, Curtis. 2000. “Gridirons & Iron Men: Western Pennsylvania As a Football Region.” Western Pennsylvania History 83 (Winter): 196-219.

Molloy, Johnny. 1996. Trial by Trail: Backpacking in the Smoky Mountains. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 192 pp.

Molloy, Johnny. 1997. The Best in Tent Camping: Smoky Mountains: A Guide for Campers Who Hate Rvs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos [50 best sites; Tenn., Ga., N.C., S.C.]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 170 pp.

Molloy, Johnny. 1998. Day and Overnight Hikes in Shenandoah National Park [profiles more than 40 hikes]. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 128 pp.

Molloy, Johnny. 2000. Day and Overnight Hikes in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 128 pp.

Molloy, Johnny. 2000. The Best Tent Camping: West Virginia. Birmingham, Ala.: Menasha Ridge Press. 177 pp.

Moore, Harry, and Fred Brown. 2001. Discovering October Roads: Fall Colors and Geology in Rural East Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 160 pp.

Moore, Harry L. 1994. A Geologic Trip Across Tennessee by Interstate 40. Outdoor Tennessee Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 384 pp.

Morton, Hugh. 2003. Hugh Morton’s North Carolina [photographs spanning 60 years: landscapes, people, sports]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 207 pp.

Moyer, Ben. 2002. Out Back: Reflections from the Appalachian Outdoors [Allegheny Mountains sportsman columns from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette feature writer]. Dunbar, Pa.: Stefano’s Printing. 132 pp.

Mozier, Jeanne. 1999. Way Out in West Virginia: A Must-Have Guide to the Oddities and Wonders of the Mountain State. Charleston, W.Va.: Quarrier Press. 254 pp.

Muench, David. 1997 [1991]. Uncommon Places: A Celebration of Appalachian Trail Country [landscape photographs]. Harpers Ferry, W.Va.: Appalachian Trail Conference. 147 pp.

Mueser, Roland. 1998. Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail [guidebook]. Camden, Me.: Ragged Mountain Press. 224 pp.

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