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This is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and letters, old journals and photographs, memoirs, and interviews with former and current employees and their families. In this book, Thomson's Pulp Mill, readers are presented with the intriguing story of the Champion Fibre Company's original construc...

August's Treasure's theme is set in the Appalachian region and it's history is part of the bedrock in this sweeping novel. An adventurous story of the building of the railroads forms the backdrop for a tale of suspense and intrigue, taking the reader on a journey across the country, back and forth through time from the 19th century to the present, as young August Hargrove sets off to find and to free one person-himself. In order to save his yo...

This historical account covers the 25th Regiment North Carolina Infantry Troops during the Civil War. Farmers and farmers' sons left their mountain homesteads to enlist with the regiment at Asheville in July and August 1861 and to defend their homeland from a Yankee invasion. The book chronicles the unit's defensive activities in the Carolina coastal regions and the battlefield actions at Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Plymouth, Richmon...

Rebel Rousers, the sequel to Master of the East Fork, is a historical fiction novel set during the American Civil War. It tells the coming-of-age tale of a youthful Rebel soldier who hails from the western North Carolina highlands. At once, it seems, the strapping lad has to bear-up under his romantic longings for the miller's daughter, the hateful acts of an antagonist named Bugg, various personal tragedies, and the terrible trials of war. Wi...

More than a decade before the American Civil War, handsome young Basil Edmunston is exiled to oversee his family's immense farm in the wilds of western North Carolina. Lonely and unsure he is up to the task, the poor boy immediately falls victim to slave vexations and the allure of two mountain belles, Julia and Altha. With twists and turns, Basil resolves the romantic triangle, manages his responsibilities, and suffers a savage encounter wit...

Nestled in the ancient mountains of western North Carolina, near Asheville, lies a fertile and historic valley carved by the brawling headwaters of the Pigeon River. Home to Cherokee Indians, pioneer settlers, Civil War volunteers, to farmers, adventurers, and industrialists, the Pigeon Valley has claimed a firm place in the hearts of its residents as well as in American history. Carroll C. Jones captures the spirit of this unique mountain com...

Nestled in the ancient mountains of western North Carolina, near Asheville, lies a fertile and historic valley carved by the brawling headwaters of the Pigeon River. Home to Cherokee Indians, pioneer settlers, Civil War volunteers, to farmers, adventurers, and industrialists, the Pigeon Valley has claimed a firm place in the hearts of its residents as well as in American history. Carroll C. Jones captures the spirit of this unique mountain com...