Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 976.88905092 EAN: 9780870497261 ISBN:087049726X Label: University of Tennessee Press Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 242 Publication Date: 1992-07 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Studio: University of Tennessee Press
Rating: - Loud ring of truth
Dorie is the history of every woman in East Tennessee who's family comes from "the mountains". A "must read" for any person seeking a peek back in time to what lives were like for those before us and the roots of where we come from.
Rating: - Step Back in Time . . .
DORIE: WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAINS is an excellent example of new history-making, literature in which one person's story is representative of an era and its people. Dorie's narration of her life in the Great Smoky Mountains during the earliest years of the twentieth century evokes memories of our own old folks and their storytelling. Her account of the often hardscrabble existence she and her family endured in the mountains of East Tennessee is not a depressing one, but a testimony of the pioneer spirit ... Read More
Rating: - Dorie: Woman of the Mountains
Dorie:Woman of the Mountains is an excellent book. Very well written - you feel as if you are talking with Dorie herself as she chronicles her life in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. This book is so entertaining you want to read it in one sitting. I would highly recommend this book to everyone. It is a most enjoyable trip back in time.
