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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.

Ball, Donald B.  2007.  “The History and Use of Tub Mills in Southern Appalachia” [traditional material culture; a small, vertical water mill with blades radiating outward; water flow strikes horizontally, not dropping vertically; diagrams, photos, references].  Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 63, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 3-55.

Ball, Donald B.  2008.  “Notes on the Use of Tubmills in Southern Appalachia.” Material Culture 40, no. 2: 1-20.   Late 19-century transplantation from Europe.

Barringer, Felicity.  2005.  “In Appalachia, Stalking the Wild Ginseng Gets Tougher” [declining harvests].  New York Times, 7 May, 10(A).

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.  “ButcheringasRitual” [hog butchering; Barbour Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Winter): 58-61.

Berry, Wendell.  2003.  “Going to Work” [“virtues of humility, reverence, proper scale, and good workmanship”].  In The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land, ed. N. Wirzba, 259-266.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Berry, Wendell.  2003.  “The Agrarian Standard.”  In The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land, ed. N. Wirzba, 23-33.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

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.

Berry, Wendell.  2005.  The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays.  Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard.  180 pp.

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

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

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

Best, Bill.  2007.  “Growing Greasy Cut-Shorts” [heirloom beans].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 75-77.

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.

Boyer, Jefferson C.  2006.  “Reinventing the Appalachian Commons”  Social Analysis 50, no. 3 (Winter): 217-232.   Resource sharing and social reciprocity; from a forum on “The Global Idea of The Commons.”

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.

Copenheaver, Carolyn A., et al. 2007.  “The Geography of Grist, Flour, and Saw Mills: Indicators of Land Use in Virginia”  [Giles Co.; tables, maps].  Southeastern Geographer 47, no. 1 (May): 138-154.  Eighteen grist and flour mills, and 26 saw mills identified; operated 1800-1950.

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, Donald Edward.  2005.  “Homeplace Geography” [West Chickamauga Valley roots, Catoosa Co., Ga.; family landmarks lost to modernization].  In Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 4-13.  Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.

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.

Dolney, Timothy J.  2007.  “Land Use Patterns and Their Proximity to Abandoned Mine Lands in the State of Pennsylvania” [30,000 AMLs; tables, maps].  Pennsylvania Geographer 45, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 80-98.

Donegia, Wayman A.  2007.  “How We Fed Ourselves Back Then: Eating Well in Barbour County” [Depression-era, 40-acre family farm].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 2 (Summer): 26-31.

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.

Ellenberg, George B.  2007.  Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South [history of the mule].  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  219 pp.

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

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.  2008.  “Pressing Cider in Preston County.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 3 (Fall): 64-66.   Old timers hand press 100 bushels of Golden Delicious and Stayman apples purchased in Romney.  Newburg Rotary Club; 30-year tradition.

Ferleger, Louis A., and John D. Metz.  2006.  “‘Goods, Chattels, Lands and Tenements’: Probate and the Pattern of Material Culture in Three Upland Georgia Counties, 1880-1910” [Crawford, Franklin and Jackson Cos.].  Georgia Historical Quarterly 90, no. 4 (Winter): 525-546.

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.

Gregg, Sara M.  2004.  “Uncovering the Subsistence Economy in the Twentieth-Century South: Blue Ridge Mountain Farms” [challenges critical 1929 study; defends farmers’ agricultural methods].  Agricultural History 78, no. 4 (Fall): 417-437.

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.

Groover, Mark D.  2003.  An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920 [Knox Co., Tenn.; four generations].Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.  320 pp.

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.

Harmon, Carolyn.  2007.  “Tending the Herd in Jackson County: Mitzie Rival and Her Goats.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 2 (Summer): 32-37.

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.

Herrin, Roberta.  2007.  “The Husk of Wildness” [gathering ground cherries and digging potatoes].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 2-3.

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.

Hopp, Steven.  2008.  “Tending Community: An Interview with Steven Hopp.”  Interview by Jim Minick.  Appalachian Heritage, 36, no. 4 (Fall): 76-81.  Hopp is the husband of Barbara Kingsolver and co-author, with his wife and daughter, of the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007).

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

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.

Johannsen, Kristin.  2006.  Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 215 pp.

Joslin, Michael.  2007.  “‘Sang Season: Digging Spirit-Frisking Ginseng” [93-year-old Joe Willis].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 57-60, and photo of ginseng laid out to dry, inside back cover.

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.

Kingsolver, Barbara, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver.  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life [local growing; sustainable agriculture; Va.].  Drawings by Richard A. Houser.  New York: HarperCollins.  370 pp.

Kingsolver, Barbara.  2003.  “Foreword.”  In The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land, ed. N. Wirzba, ix-xvii.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

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.

Lester, Connie L.  2006.  Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915. Athens: University of Georgia Press.  321 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.

Marion, Jeff Daniel.  2005.  “Leaf by Leaf” [1960s memoir; measuring rural tobacco patches for the Agricultural Stabilization Control Office].  In Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 54-66.  Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.

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.

McCaig, Donald.  2007 [2004].  A Useful Dog [seven short pieces about working sheepdogs]. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.  80 pp.  Originally published: Carrollton, Oh.: Press on Scroll Road.

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.

McNeil, Robert B.  2005.  “Old Deeds Tell a New Story” [18th- and 19th-century plats of Blacksburg, Va. compared].  Smithfield Review: Studies in the History of the Region West of the Blue Ridge 9: 43-54.

Miller, Daniel.  2008.  “Using AquacultureAsa Post-Mining Land Use in West Virginia.”  Mine Water and the Environment 27, no. 2: 122-126

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

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.

Minick, Jim.  2005.  “A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry.”  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 1 (Winter). Online at http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-1/view/Minick.htm.  Reprinted from Appalachian Journal 31, nos. 3-4: 300-313.

Minick, Jim.  2007.  “Looking for Land” [Wythe Co., Va.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 29-31.

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.

Olsen, Marty.  2008.  “Shadows of the Past.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 2 (Summer): 50-57.  Short photo essay of family farms in Lewis and Gilmer Counties.

Perez, Karni R.  2006.  Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry.  Fire Ant Books.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  263 pp.

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.

Salstrom, Paul.  2007.  From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880.  West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press.  208 pp.   Relationships with Ky., Ohio Valley, and Ill.

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.

Smith, R. T.  2006.  “Singing ‘Sang” [Editor’s Note; on ginseng].  Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 56, no. 3 (Winter): 197-202.

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

Stroud, Hubert B.  2007.  “Problems Associated with Amenity-Based Subdivisions in the Poconos: The Case of Pike County, Pennsylvania” [rapid growth; a “suburb of the suburbs” of metro N.Y. and N.J.].  Pennsylvania Geographer 45, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 66-79.

Stryk, Suzanne.  2005.  “Tobacco” [artist’s reflections; Cozart Warehouse, Abingdon, Va.].  In Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, ed. Ted Olson, 50-53.  Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.

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

Sultana, Selima, and Joe Weber.  2007.  “Journey-to-Work Patterns in the Age of Sprawl: Evidence from Two Midsize Southern Metropolitan Areas.” [Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala.].  Professional Geographer 59, no. 2 (May): 193-208.

Taylor, David A.  2006.  Ginseng, The Divine Root.  Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.  308 pp.

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.

Thomas, Sarah.  2008.  “Vitis Appalachia.”  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 12-16.   Wineries in W.Va., Ky., Va., N.C., and Tenn.

Trachtman, Paul.  2005.  “Wendell Berry” [profile of the farmer/poet; farming issues].  Smithsonian 36, no. 8 (November): 54-55.

Van Willigen, John, and Anne van Willigen.  2006.  Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950 [FSA photographs].  Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  260 pp.

Van Willigen, John, and Susan C. Eastwood. 1998.  Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky’s Burley Belt [Central Ky.; production steps, from oral histories].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  213 pp.

Veteto, James.  2008.  “The History and Survival of Traditional Heirloom Vegetable Varieties in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina.”  Agriculture and Human Values 25, no. 1 (January): 121-134.    More than 134 varieties still being grown.

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.

Walker, Melissa.  2006.  Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History [from 475 interviews with 531 people in 14 Southern states].  New Directions in Southern History.  Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky.  324 pp.

Walker, Mike.  2006.  “Raising Calves in Monroe County” [Pickaway, W.Va.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 1 (Spring): 44-49.  Sidebar by Gene Bailey, “Grandma and the Gentleman” [i.e., bull, kept for breeding neighbors’ cows during the 1930s and 40s for needed extra income, 50-51].

Ware, Mark D.  2006.  Spotza, Keelers, and Stirred Sugar [maple sugaring history]. Somerset, Pa.: Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County.  150 pp.

Warren, Sarah T.  2005.  “ Public Interests in Private Property: Conflicts Over Wood Chip Mills in North Carolina” [forest policy; resource exploitation].  Southern Rural Sociology 19, no. 2: 114-131.

Way, Albert.  2004.  “‘A World Properly Put Together’: Environmental Knowledge in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain” [novel, 1997; film, 2003].  Southern Cultures 10, no. 4 (Winter): 33-54.

Whaley, Abe.  2005.  “Once Unique, Soon a Place Like Any Other” [unregulated single-family housing construction on East Tenn. mountain tops].  Newsweek, 14 November, 13.

Wheelock, Perry Carpenter.  2007.  Farming Along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1828-1971: A Study of Agricultural Sites in the C&O Canal National Historical Park [Western Md.].   Hagerstown, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park.  121 pp.

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.

Williams, Charles E.  2008.  “A Comparative Survey and Review of Agricultural Use of Post-Mining Landscapes in Pennsylvania and the Appalachian Region.”  Pennsylvania Geographer 46, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 22-45.

Wirzba, Norman, ed.  2003.   The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  276 pp.  Fifteen essays, several celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America (Sierra Club Books, 1977).

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.

Wotring, Keith.  2008.  “Water Witching in Preston County: A Visit with Keith Wotring” [b. 1926].  Interview by Donetta Sisler.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 1 (Spring): 54-59.

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