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050 00 $aPS3555.H5$bR63 1998
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100 1 $aEhle, John,$d1925-2018.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030246
245 14 $aThe road /$cJohn Ehle ; foreword by Sharyn McCrumb.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $avii, 401 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAppalachian echoes
520 $aOriginally published in 1967, The Road is epic historical fiction at its best. At the novel's center is Weatherby Wright, a railroad builder who launches an ambitious plan to link the highlands of western North Carolina with the East. As a native of the region, Wright knows what his railway will mean to the impoverished settlers.
520 8 $aBut to accomplish his grand undertaking he must conquer Sow Mountain, "a massive monolith of earth, rock, vegetation and water, an elaborate series of ridges which built on one another to the top.".
520 8 $aWright's struggle to construct the railroad - which requires tall trestles crossing deep ravines and seven tunnels blasted through shale and granite - proves to be much more than an engineering challenge. There is opposition from a child evangelist, who preaches that the railroad is the work of the devil, and there is a serious lack of funds, which forces Wright to use convict labor.
520 8 $aHow Wright confronts these challenges and how the mountain people respond to the changes the railroad brings to their lives make for powerfully compelling reading.
650 0 $aRailroads$zAppalachian Region, Southern$xDesign and construction$xHistory$vFiction.
650 0 $aMountain life$zNorth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century$vFiction.
650 0 $aConvict labor$zNorth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century$vFiction.
651 0 $aNorth Carolina$xHistory$y1865-$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
830 0 $aAppalachian echoes.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97112334
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