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About APPALACHIAN GENESIS: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era
FIRE AND ICE, BLOOD AND GORE! A documentary by Richard Lee Fulgham: The story begins with catastrophe -- as the continent of Africa rams into North America, thrusting up the Appalachian Mountain called now the Clinch -- off which runs the Clinch River, the second oldest in the world, carving a valley so rich and bountiful that it is fought over by (get this!) paleo-Indians, "Xulan Empire" warriors, Cherokee, Shawnee, Mingo Native Americans, Spanish Conquistadors, English explorers, Long-hunters, pioneers, French trappers, British soldiers, English Colonists, Tories, Patriots. . . . ���� Wars were fought for possession of the Clinch River Valley by the Xulans vs. Conquistadors; Cherokee vs. Shawnee; Cherokee vs. settlers; French & Indians vs. the British; Militia vs. renegade Indian armies; Redcoats vs. Overmountain men. . . . ���� The book ends with the so-called civilization of the valley, marked by President Andrew Jackson's decree that every Native American in SE USA by rounded up at bayonet point and forced to marched to Oklahoma . . . . 4000 Cherokee alone died along the way. . . . ���� The book is also beautifully written, the match of the best of Loren Eisley, Joseph Wood Krutch, Lauren van der Post and even Thoreau.� Here's an example, writing about the ice-age hunters who lived in the Clinch 15,000 years ago: ��� "Certainly the Paleo-Indians were here when all was frozen and the icy air made their lungs rattle.� Certainly at night they held their Clovis spears tight, huddled close around their campfires and together watched the blood-red shining eyes -- perhaps of sabre-toothed cats -- watching them so ominously from just beyond the firelight.� Certainly they gazed at the unchanging stars and wondered silently if there was not more to life than ambushing those massive ice-age beasts less clever than they." ��� Available from any booksore (order it if they don't carry it), or get it online from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Borders, BooksAmillion, eCampus, Waldenbooks, etc.� It's one hell of a book!� Illustrated.
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