New Books Received
William L. Traxel. Footprints of the Welsh Indians: Settlers in North America Before 1492. New York: Algora Publishing, 2004. 224 pages. Paperback with a variety of maps and photos (black and white) and an index. $23.95.
Kevin Donleavy. Strings of Life: Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina. Blacksburg, VA: Pocahontas Press, 2004. 347 pages. Paperback with black and white photographs, selections of music, and family trees. $30.00.
Bob Sehlinger and Johnny Molloy. A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to Kentucky. Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 2004. 267 pages. Paperback with photos and maps. $16.95.
Michael Montgomery and Joseph Hall. Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 710 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. $75.00.
Patrick Minges. Black Indian Slave Narratives. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Publishers, 2004. 200 pages. Paperback. $10.95.
Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman, (Eds.). The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 361 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. $29.95.
Paul D. Casdorph. Confederate General R.S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee’s Hesitant Commander. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. $39.95.
George Constantz. Hollows, Peepers, & Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology (2nd ed.). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2004. 359 pages. Paperback with illustrations and maps. $18.50.
Mari-Lynn Evans, Robert Santelli, and Holly George-Warren, eds. The Appalachians: America’s First and Last Frontier. New York: Random House, 2004. 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket; contains abundance of color and black and white photographs. $29.95.
Florence Thomas. The Art of Florence Thomas. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2004. 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket; contains full color reproductions of artist’s work. $45.00.
Eve S. Weinbaum. To Move A Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia. New York: The New Press, 2004. 320 pages. Hardcover with a dust jacket. $29.95.
John B. Rehder. Appalachian Folkways. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins university Press, 2004. 353 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. $39.95.
Out-of-Date Books Received
Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law & Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Hard back with dust jacket.
Ron Rash. One Foot In Eden. New York: Picador, 2002. 214 pages. Paperback, fiction. $13.00.
Irene McKinney, ed. Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: Vandalia Press, 2002. 273 pages. Paperback, collection of poetry and prose. $24.50.
Felicia Mitchell, ed. Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2002. 333 pages. Paperback. $17.00.
Isabel Zuber. Salt. New York: Picador USA, 2002. 352 pages. Paperback, novel. $14.00.