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David Armstrong. If you like true stories and tales about Appalachian Mountain people of the old times, you should like this book. If you
like stories about trains, loggers, and coal mines, you may also enjoy these notes. From train wrecks to train robberies, from shootouts to sports, from hunting and fishing to gunslingers and moonshiners, it’s all here. It is full of yarns about life in the woods in a bygone time– plus details about many of the natural wonders of the Allegheny Region. From Jesse James to Henry Gassaway Davis and from African Americans to Dunkard preachers, many are the characters herein. Common folk. Real people. From the Allegheny River of
northwestern Pennsylvania to the Clinch River Valley in southwestern Virginia, there are the stories of the people who lived the hard life and who carved a state out of a trackless mountain range. Special attention has been given to women– how they lived, loved and suffered. Tales about such varied topics as tourism, wild west shows and a duel with one gun are told by the people who were there to see them. The reader need not read the entire book to enjoy it. Whether he or she wants to learn something along the way is left
up to the reader. 143 pgs. 8 1/2×11, softbound. (HC-7950DA)