Keowee Valley
Title | Keowee Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Scott Crawford |
Publisher | Bell Bridge Books |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 161194192X |
"A glorious debut from a gifted author." - Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Big Stone Gap and The Shoemaker's Wife On the edge of the wilderness, her adventure began. "Keowee Valley is a terrific first novel by Katherine Scott Crawford--a name that should be remembered. She has a lovely prose style, a great sense of both humor and history, and she tells about a time in South Carolina that I never even imagined." --Pat Conroy, bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad. She journeyed into the wilderness to find a kidnapped relative. She stayed to build a new life filled with adventure, danger, and passion. Spring, 1768. The Southern frontier is a treacherous wilderness inhabited by the powerful Cherokee people. In Charlestown, South Carolina, twenty-five-year-old Quincy MacFadden receives news from beyond the grave: her cousin, a man she'd believed long dead, is alive--held captive by the Shawnee Indians. Unmarried, bookish, and plagued by visions of the future, Quinn is a woman out of place . . . and this is the opportunity for which she's been longing. Determined to save two lives, her cousin's and her own, Quinn travels the rugged Cherokee Path into the South Carolina Blue Ridge. But in order to rescue her cousin, Quinn must trust an enigmatic half-Cherokee tracker whose loyalties may lie elsewhere. As translator to the British army, Jack Wolf walks a perilous line between a King he hates and a homeland he loves. When Jack is ordered to negotiate for Indian loyalty in the Revolution to come, the pair must decide: obey the Crown, or commit treason . . . Katherine Scott Crawford was born and raised in the blue hills of the South Carolina Upcountry, the history and setting of which inspired Keowee Valley. Winner of a North Carolina Arts Award, she is a former newspaper reporter and outdoor educator, a college English teacher, and an avid hiker. She lives with her family in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she tries to resist the siren call of her passport as she works on her next novel. Visit her at: www.katherinescottcrawford.com.
Pickens County
Title | Pickens County PDF eBook |
Author | Piper Peters Aheron |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738506067 |
A paradise of breathtaking waterfalls, flawless vistas, and picturesque lakes, Pickens County enjoys a remarkable natural beauty along the stream-laced foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The county, named for early settler and Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens, was once part of the Old Pendleton District, a portion of the Palmetto State that also included Anderson and Oconee Counties, and like much of the Upstate, echoes its Cherokee heritage through local names such as Lake Keowee and the Cateechee community. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, provides readers a unique opportunity to step back into the Pickens County of yesteryear, a time remembered for clay main streets, horse-drawn buggies, railroads, and early textile mills, gristmills, and sawmills. Covering the county's towns, such as Easley, Pickens, Liberty, and Central, Pickens County recounts the intriguing stories of hardships and accomplishments of the area's pioneering families and descendants, who have continued to shape the county without destroying the area's natural environment.
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | South Carolina Geological Survey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN |
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G
Title | The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 4454 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780231145541 |
A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
In the Morning
Title | In the Morning PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Lee Williams |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780881460223 |
A Guide to the Chattooga River
Title | A Guide to the Chattooga River PDF eBook |
Author | Butch Clay |
Publisher | Menasha Ridge Press |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0897320042 |
In 1974 the Chattooga River became the first river East of the Mississippi to be included in the National Wild and Scenic River System. It was included because it was a clean, free-flowing mountain stream located in a relatively undeveloped mountain environment. Forming part of the Georgia-South Carolina Border, the Chattooga is the only free-flowing portion of the Savannah River System. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the river including the topography, physiography and geology, weather and climate, human history, plant life, wildlife, and recreation opportunities.
Historic Tales of Cashiers, North Carolina
Title | Historic Tales of Cashiers, North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Gibson Nardy |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2008-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614232377 |
In this charming account, North Carolina historian Jane Gibson Nardy recounts a treasure-trove of true stories from her beloved Blue Ridge community. In addition to several generations of family memorabilia from her personal library, Nardy has also culled the area's public records--deeds, wills, marriage registers and even tombstones--all of which help to create a vivid picture of mountain life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of the tales will amuse and some will sadden, but all will educate you about the wonderful heritage of Cashiers.