OCONALUFTEE: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley

Offers a deeply researched account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Giddens builds the tale from archives, census records, property records, personal memoirs, and more, showing how national events affected all Oconaluftee's people--Indigenous, Black, and white. Illus.