{"product_id":"the-appalachian-frontier-john-anthony-caruso-9781572332157","title":"The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward","description":"John Anthony Caruso's \u003ci\u003eThe Appalachian Frontier, \u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region's history from its earliest seventeenth-century scouting parties to the admission of Tennessee to the Union in 1796, Caruso describes the exchange of ideas, values, and cultural traits that marked Appalachia as a unique frontier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Looking at the rich and mountainous land between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, \u003ci\u003eThe Appalachian Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e follows the story of the Long Hunters in Kentucky; the struggles of the Regulators in North Carolina; the founding of the Watauga, Transylvania, Franklin, and Cumberland settlements; the siege of Boonesboro; and the patterns and challenges of frontier life. While narrating the gripping stories of such figures as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and Chief Logan, Caruso combines social, political, and economic history into a comprehensive overview of the early mountain South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his new introduction, John C. Inscoe examines how this work exemplified the so-called consensus school of history that arose in the United States during the cold war. Unabashedly celebratory in his analysis of American nation building, Caruso shows how the development of Appalachia fit into the grander scheme of the evolution of the country. While there is much in \u003ci\u003eThe Appalachian Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e that contemporary historians would regard as one-sided and romanticized, Inscoe points out that \"those of us immersed so deeply in the study of the region and its people sometimes tend to forget that the white settlement of the mountain south in the eighteenth century was not merely the chronological foundation of the Appalachian experience. As Caruso so vividly demonstrates, it is also represented a vital--even defining--stage in the American progression across the continent.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Anthony Caruso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1572332158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781572332157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.80w x 1.24d","brand":"John Anthony Caruso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962166661375,"sku":"9781572332157","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d74e237-ca83-46d0-89f8-c87f92c0fb1b.jpg?v=1750649520","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-appalachian-frontier-john-anthony-caruso-9781572332157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}