This ethnography details the people of Little Laurel Valley of western North Carolina & takes the reader beyond the stereotypes & into the Appalachian folk cult

Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.

"The official field guide of the Tennessee Native Plant Society."

A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis. Desp