Appalachian Genesis: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era is a documentary of a unique place and time in early American history. It is also a book as exciting and fun to read as an adventure novel. Fulgham’s story is of epic proportions, spanning not centuries but millennia, and even epochs, as the river valley is first shaped by nature into a paradise for all living things—then shaped by humans into a war zone where Native American, British, French, Colonial, Tory, and Patriot forces regularly collided in bloody conflicts. Americans can read Appalachian Genesis and understand what happens in the country today by studying what happened in one of its river valleys yesterday.
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