Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community - Paperback

by Durwood Dunn (Author)

Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award

Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, Durwood Dunn sketches the early pioneers, their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggles to survive and prosper in this isolated mountain community, now within the confines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In moving detail this book brings to life an isolated mountain community, its struggle to survive, and the tragedy of its demise.

Author Biography

Durwood Dunn was a professor history and the longtime Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens. He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee and was a proponent of Tennessee and Appalachian history.