The Call Of The Cumberlands

Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9360460486
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Cumberlands written by Charles Neville Buck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Call of the Cumberlands" is a unique by using Charles Neville Buck that captures the essence of the rugged Appalachian region for the duration of the early 20th century. Published in 1913, the tale unfolds in opposition to the backdrop of the Cumberland Mountains, exploring the lives of the mountain people and the challenges they face inside the midst of social exchange. The narrative revolves round Judd Lackland, a younger man who returns to his homeland inside the Cumberlands after receiving a schooling. Judd becomes a bridge between the conventional ways of the mountain people and the influences of the outside global. As development encroaches upon the isolated network, Judd grapples along with his loyalty to his roots and his aspirations for a brighter future. Charles Neville Buck skillfully depicts the splendor and harshness of the Cumberland Mountains, the use of the panorama as a metaphor for the resilience of its humans. The novel delves into issues of cultural clash, the impact of modernization, and the long-lasting energy of historical past. Buck's work is each a party of Appalachian culture and a mirrored image on the tensions between subculture and progress, making "The Call of the Cumberlands" a timeless exploration of the human spirit in the face of exchange.

Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781495400704
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Cumberlands written by Charles Neville Buck and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close to the serried backbone of the Cumberland ridge through a sky of mountain clarity, the sun seemed hesitating before its descent to the horizon. The sugar-loaf cone that towered above a creek called Misery was pointed and edged with emerald tracery where the loftiest timber thrust up its crest plumes into the sun. On the hillsides it would be light for more than an hour yet, but below, where the waters tossed themselves along in a chorus of tiny cascades, the light was already thickening into a cathedral gloom. Down there the "furriner" would have seen only the rough course of the creek between moss-velveted and shaded bowlders of titanic proportions. The native would have recognized the country road in these tortuous twistings. Now there were no travelers, foreign or native, and no sounds from living throats except at intervals the clear "Bob White" of a nesting partridge, and the silver confidence of the red cardinal flitting among the pines. Occasionally, too, a stray whisper of breeze stole along the creek-bed and rustled the beeches, or stirred in the broad, fanlike leaves of the "cucumber trees." A great block of sandstone, to whose summit a man standing in his saddle could scarcely reach his fingertips, towered above the stream, with a gnarled scrub oak clinging tenaciously to its apex. Loftily on both sides climbed the mountains cloaked in laurel and timber.Suddenly the leafage was thrust aside from above by a cautious hand, and a shy, half-wild girl appeared in the opening. For an instant she halted, with her brown fingers holding back the brushwood, and raised her face as though listening. Across the slope drifted the call of the partridge, and with perfect imitation she whistled back an answer. It would have seemed appropriate to anyone who had seen her that she should talk bird language to the birds. She was herself as much a wood creature as they, and very young. That she was beautiful was not strange. The women of the mountains have a morning-glory bloom—until hardship and drudgery have taken toll of their youth—and she could not have been more than sixteen.

Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483271463
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Cumberlands (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Neville Buck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Call of the Cumberlands Suddenly the leaf age was thrust aside from above by a cautious hand, and a shy, half-wild girl appeared in the opening. For an instant she halted, with her brown fingers holding back the brushwood, and raised her face as though listening. Across the slope drifted the call of the partridge, and with perfect imitation she whis tled back an answer. It would have seemed appropriate to anyone who had seen her that she should talk bird language to the birds. She was herself as much a wood creature as they, and very young. That she was beautiful was not strange. The women of the moun tains have a morning-glory bloom - until hardship and drudgery have taken toll of their youth - and she could not have been more than sixteen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Buck
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985774995
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Cumberlands written by Charles Buck and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary Kentucky feud story with good local color and atmosphere. The hero is taken to New York where he becomes a successful artist, but he returns to Kentucky to end the feud by methods of law and order and to find his old sweetheart transformed by the years. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Harry M. Claudill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252007
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area written by Harry M. Claudill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing Family of the Cumberlands written by Jean Ritchie and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an American folk-singer, who grew up in the Cumberland mountains. With the words and music of many songs.

Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781298068187
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call of the Cumberlands - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Charles Neville Buck and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Charles Neville Buck
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495331640
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call of the Cumberlands written by Charles Neville Buck and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt-At the far edge lay a pair of saddlebags, such as form the only practical equipment for mountain travelers. They were ordinary saddlebags, made from the undressed hide of a brindle cow, and they were fat with tight packing. A pair of saddlebags lying unclaimed at the roadside would in themselves challenge curiosity. But in this instance they gave only the prefatory note to a stranger story. Near them lay a tin box, littered with small and unfamiliar-looking tubes of soft metal, all grotesquely twisted and stained, and beside the box was a strangely shaped plaque of wood, smeared with a dozen hues. For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com

Author : Mary Jo Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Witch of the Cumberlands written by Mary Jo Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the prophesied arrival of three children on Devil's Mountain a gentle elderly woman, whom the villagers call a witch, unravels the old mystery of a local mine disaster.