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Adams, Donald R. Jr. "Prices and Wages in Antebellum America: The West Virginia
  Experience." Journal of Economic History 52 (1992): 206-216.
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Allen-Smith, Joyce E., Ronald C. Wimberly, and Libby V. Morris. “America’s Forgotten
  People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32 (2000): 319-329.
  Link to article -- full text available in AgEcon Search

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"Appalachian Conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development."
  Appalachia 11 (1977): 1-18.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical A
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A641

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Bethel, Thomas N. and Davitt McAteer "The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter on
  Buffalo Creek." Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case. Ed. Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium, 1978. 259-275.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.974 C719
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.974 C719

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Blee, Kathleen B. and Dwight B. Billings. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth
  and Hardship in Appalachia. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.974 B598r
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.974 B598r

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Blethen, H. Tyler and Curtis W. Wood. "A Trader on the Western Carolina Frontier."
  Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society, and Development in the Preindustrial Era. Ed. Robert D. Mitchell. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1991. 150-165.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 975.03 A646
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975.03 A646

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Caudill, Harry M. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area.
  Boston: Little, 1962.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 309.17691 C371n
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Caudill, Harry M. Theirs Be the Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky. Urbana: U of
  Illinois P, 1983.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 332.09 C371t
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 332.09 C371t

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Cook, Samuel R. "The Great Depression, Subsistence and Views of Poverty in
  Wyoming County, West Virginia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (1998): 271-283.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj

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Couto, Richard A. An American Challenge: A Report on Economic Trends and Social
  Issues in Appalachia. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1994.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.975 C871a
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.975 C871a

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Ford, Thomas R., ed. The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. Lexington: U of
  Kentucky P, 1962.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 309.175 S726s
  Hutchins Library Reference 309.175 S726s
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 309.175 S726s
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Gaventa, John, Barbara Smith, and Alex Willingham, eds. Communities in Economic
  Crisis: Appalachia and the South. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.974 C734
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.974 C734

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Gaventa, John. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an
  Appalachian Valley. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1980.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 320.975 G282p
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 320.975 G282p

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Haynes, Ada F. Poverty in Central Appalachia: Underdevelopment and Exploitation.
  New York: Garland, 1997.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 362.509 H424p
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 362.509 H424p

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Isserman, Andrew M. "Appalachia Then and Now: An Update of 'The Realities of
  Deprivation' Report to the President in 1964." Journal of Appalachian Studies 3 (1997): 43-69.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj

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Lewis, Helen M., Linda Johnson, and Don Askins, eds. Colonialism in Modern
  America: The Appalachian Case. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.974 C719
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.974 C719

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McKenzie, Robert Tracy. "Civil War and Socioeconomic Change in the Upper South:
  The Survival of Local Agricultural Elites in Tennessee, 1850-1870." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 52 (1993): 170-184.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 976.8 T2975
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McKenzie, Robert Tracy. "'Oh! Ours Is a Deplorable Condition': The Economic Impact
  of the Civil War in East Tennessee." The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays. Ed. Kenneth W. Noe and Shannon H. Wilson. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997. 199-226.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 973.713 C582
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 973.713 C582
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McKenzie, Robert Tracy. One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in
  Civil War-Era Tennessee. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.976 M157o

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McKenzie, Robert Tracy. "Wealth and Income: The Preindustrial Structure of East
  Tennessee in 1860." Appalachian Journal 21 (1994): 260-279.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical A
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 A6453
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Mencken, F. Carson. “Federal Spending and Economic Growth in Appalachian
  Counties.” Rural Sociology 65 (2000): 126-147.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical R
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Mencken, F. Carson. "Income and Employment Change in Appalachia during the
  1983-1988 Business Cycle Recovery: Locating Differential Effects in North, Central, and Southern Appalachia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (1996): 77-86.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj

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Mitchell, Robert D. Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early
  Shenandoah Valley. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1977.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 333.7 M682c

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Olson, James S. "The Depths of the Great Depression: Economic Collapse in West
  Virginia, 1932-1933." West Virginia History 38 (1977): 214-225.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
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Salstrom, Paul. Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic
  History, 1730-1940. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1994.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 330.9739 S175a
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 330.9739 S175a

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Santopietro, George D. “Analyzing Income Convergence at the County Level: The Case
  of Development in Central Appalachia.” Journal of Economic Issues 36 (2002): 893-906.
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Thomas, Jerry Bruce. “Please Tell the President . . . Only an Absolute Dictatorship Will
  Save Us: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression in West Virginia, August 1933.” West Virginia History 58 (1998): 135-161.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 051 W521
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Weiler, Stephen. "The Economics of the Struggling Structurally Unemployed." Journal
  of Appalachian Studies 3 (1997): 71-97.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 975 A6462cj