Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically describes the religion, occupations, living conditions, social life, and customs of those migrants.
H. Tyler Blethen is professor of history at Western Carolina University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1985, Dr. Blethen has also been head of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. Curtis W. Wood, Jr., is emeritus professor of history at Western Carolina University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
