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Bibliography

Primary Sources:
West Virginia and Regional History Center Archives
  • Collins Lumber Company Ledger, A&M 2556 
  • Cortez D. Reece Archive, collection nos. 89-123
  • Hendricks, West Virginia, Business Records, A&M 0659 
  • John Harrington Cox, Collector, Papers Regarding West Virginia Folklore, A&M 0883
  • Louis Watson Chappell (1890-1981), Folklorist, Research Papers, Sound Recordings, A&M 2480
  • Lumber Companies in Tucker County, Minute Books and Other Material, A&M 1163 
  • McKendree Miners Hospital, Ledger, A&M 3456
  • Miners Hospital No. 2, McKendree, Fayette County Records, A&M 3505
  • Patrick Ward Gainer (1904-1981), Collector, Papers, A&M 3003
  • Mahala Chapman Mace Gregory Manuscripts, A&M 1948
  • Philip Bagdon, Research Notes Regarding Cass, West Virginia, A&M 3070
  • Ronald Lewis, Historian, Research Notes Regarding Timber Industry in West Virginia, A&M 3634 
  • Thomas S. Brown, collection nos. 160-305
  • Virginia Lumber Company Records, A&M 2517 
West Virginia State Archives
  • Carolyn Thompson Smith Collection, MS 2009-089 and MS 2007-081
  • "Hometown, West Virginia Rainelle" by Danny McMillion, MS 2003-041
  • Howard Sutherland Papers, MS 83-2
  • Meadow River Lumber Company. Records, 1906-1970, MS 79-252
  • Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association Collection, MS 83-12acc
  • S. E. Slaymaker and Company Records, MS 2014-010

Government Reports

  • Bones, James T, Ralph P Glover, and Unites States Department of Agriculture. The Timber Industries of West Virginia. USDA. Forest Service Resouce Bulletin Ne, 47. Upper Darby, PA: Forest Service, US Dept of Agriculture, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1977.
  • Macdonald Associates, and Appalachian Regional Commission. Evaluation of the Formation and Operation of Timber Development Organizations in Appalachia. Appalachian Research Report, No. 1. Washington: Appalachian Regional Commission, 1966.
  • Zinn, Gary W, Kenneth D Jones, and West Virginia University. Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. Forests & the West Virginia Economy. West Virginia Forest Development Series. Morgantown: West Virginia University, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, 1984.
Articles:
  • Brashler, Janet G. "When Daddy Was a Shanty Boy," Historical Archaeology 25, no. 4 (1991): 54-68.
  • Conlin, Joseph R. “Old Boy, Did you Get Your Pie? A Social History of Food in Logging Camps,” Journal of Forest History 23, no. 4 (October 1979): 164-185
  • Coy, Fred e. Jr., Tom Fuller, Larry G. Meadows and Don Fig, “Splash Dam Construction in Eastern Kentucky's Red River Drainage Area,” Forest & Conservation History 36, no. 4 (1992): 179-184.
  • Hennen, "Benign Betrayal: Capitalist Intervention in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 1890-1910," West Virginia History 50 (1991): 46-62.
  • Kline, Benjamin F.G., Jr.  “The Nature of Logging Railroads of West Virginia.”  Log Train 2 (Jan. 1984): 12-15.
  • Lambert, Robert S. "Logging the Great Smokies, 1880-1930," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 20, no. 4 (1961), 350-363.
  • Marquess, E. Lawrence.  “The West Virginia Venture:  Empire Out of Wilderness.”  West Virginia History 14 (1952):  5-27. 
  • Super, Joseph. "West Virginia Incorporated: Religion and the Railroad in the Timber Counties." West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies 7, no. 2 (2013): 33-62.
  • Thomas-Van Gundy, Melissa and Robert Whetsell, “West Virginia’s Big Trees: Setting the Record Straight.” Journal of Forestry 114, no. 5 (September 2016): 582-583.
  • Walker, J. Herber. "Lumberjacks and Raftsmen." In Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, edited by Korson George, 326-53. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. Accessed February 11, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv51383m.13.
  • Whisnant, David. "Thicker than Fiddlers in Hell: Issues and Resources in Appalachian Music,” Appalachian Journal: A Guide to Appalachian Studies 5, no. 1 (Autumn 1977): 103-115.
Books:
  • Ambler, Charles Henry, and Festus P. Summers. West Virginia, the Mountain State. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958.
  • Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force. Who Owns Appalachia?: Landownership and Its Impact. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
  • Bagdon, Philip V. Meadow River Lumber Company: West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad. Lynchburg, VA: TLC Pub, 2002.
  • Barkley, Artie. 100 Years Against the Mountain: Shay No. 5 at Cass, WV: With Stories by Artie Barkley. West Chester, PA: Greenhill Station Productions, 2005.
  • Beisswenger, Drew.  Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine.  Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
  • Berman, Gillian Mace, Melissa Conley-Spencer, Barbara J. Howe, Charlene M. Lattea, West Virginia University Public History Program, and Monongahela National Forest (Agency: US). The Monongahela National Forest, 1915-1990. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Public History Program, 1992.
  • Billings, Dwight B., and Kathleen M. Blee.  Road to Poverty:  The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Bodkins, Steve. Bemis & Glady, West Virginia: A History of Two Mountain Towns. Independence, WV: S. Bodkins, 2006.
  • Boette, Marie. Singa Hipsy Doodle and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1972. 
  • Beuhr, Walter. Timber!: Farming Our Forests. New York: Morrow, 1960.
  • Bush, Michael E. “Jim.”  Folk Songs of Central West Virginia, vol. 3.  Glenville, WV: published by the author, 1975.
  • Byrne, W.E.R. Tale of the Elk. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Pub, 1940.
  • Callahan, James Morton, and West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission. Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia: with Special Articles on Development and Resources. Charleston, WV: Semi-Centennial Commission of West Virginia, 1913.
  • Carter, Mason C., R.C. Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger. Forestry in the U.S. South: A History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
  • Caudill, Harry M. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: a Biography of a Depressed Area. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001.
  • Clarkson, Roy B.  On Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga.  Parsons, WV:  McClain Printing, 1990.
  • Clarkson, Roy B.  Tumult on the Mountain:  Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920.  Parsons, WV:  McClain Printing, 1964. 
  • Cohen, Norm. Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong. Music in American Life. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981.
  • Conservation Commission of West Virginia, United States. Forest Service, and West Virginia Bankers Association. Southern West Virginia Invites You to Share in Its Woodland Wealth. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Bankers Association, 1960. 
  • Cox, John Harrington, Alan Jabbour, and West Virginia Folk-lore Society. Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia Univeristy Press, 2013.
  • Cox, John Harrington. Folk Songs Mainly from West Virginia. New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. 
  • Cox, John Harrington. Traditional Ballads and Folk-Songs Mainly from West Virginia. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1964.
  • Curry, Richard Orr.  A House Divided:  A Study of Statehood Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia.  Pittsburgh, PA:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.
  • Cuthbert, John A., ed.  West Virginia Folk Music:  A Descriptive Guide to Field Recordings in The West Virginia and Regional History Collection.  Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 1982.
  • Davis, Donald Edward.  Homeplace Geography:  Essays for Appalachia. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. 
  • Davis, Donald Edward.  Where There are Mountains:  An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians.  Athens, GA:  The University of Georgia Press, 2005.
  • Dean, William H. Coal, Steamboats, Timber and Trains: the Early Industrial History of St. Albans, West Virginia & the Coal River, 1850-1925. Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Pub, 2007.
  • Deike, George H. Logging South Cheat: the History of the Snowshoe Lands. Unknown place of publication: Dr. George H. Deike III, 1993.
  • Dickinson, Jack and Kay Stamper Dickinson. Lumbermen, Log Rafts, and Sawmills: The Lumber and Timber Industry in Southern West Virginia. Self-published, 2016.
  • Doerflinger, William Main. Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman. New York: Macmillan, 1951.
  • Dunaway, Wilma A. The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 
  • Eller, Ronald D.  Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers:  Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930.  Knoxville, TN:  The University of Tennessee Press, 1982. 
  • Eller, Ronald D.  “Mountain Railroad:  A Study of the Construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in Southern West Virginia, 1867-1873.”  M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973. 
  • Eller, Ronald D. Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
  • Fleischhauer, Carl and Alan Jabbour. The Hammons Family: A Study of a West Virginia Family's Traditions. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1973.
  • Foster, Julia Laura. "The Rise, Fall, and Recovery of West Virginia Boom Towns: Creating a Preservation Plan for Davis, Thomas, and Coketon,” Master’s thesis, Columbia University, 2009.
  • Futej, Gerald M. & Max S. Robin.  100 Years and Counting:  The Town of Cass, WV.  West Chester, PA:  Greenhill Station Productions, 2007.
  • Gainer, Patrick Ward.  Folksongs from the West Virginia Hills. Grantsville, WV: Seneca Books, 1975. 
  • Gainer, Patrick Ward, Emily Hilliard. Folksongs from the West Virginia Hills. Morgantown, WV:  West Virginia University Press, 2017. 
  • Gainer, Patrick Ward, and West Virginia Centennial Committee on Folklore. The West Virginia Centennial Book of One Hundred Songs, 1863-1963:  Patriotic Songs, Folk Songs, Hymns. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, 1963. 
  • Gilbert, Kenneth G. Mountain Trace. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1980.
  • Hahn, Steven, and Jonathan Prude. The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. 
  • Hensley, Tim, Bob Withers, and Kenneth L Miller. Cass Scenic Railroad: Fifty Years a State Park: A Century of Steam on Bald Knob. Kenova, WV: Pocahontas Productions, 2013. 
  • Hulse, Charles A. Archeological Investigations at Spruce, WV:  A Company-owned Railroad and Mill Community of the Late Industrial Revolution Period.  Shepherdstown, WV: Shepherd College Cultural Resource Management Series #7, 1989.
  • Kahn, Si.  The Forest Service and Appalachia.  New York: John Hay Whitney Foundation, 1974.
  • Killoran, John P. The Cass Collection. Scott Depot, WV: Trackage Rights, 1982.
  • Lewis, Ronald L.  The Industrialist and the Mountaineer:  The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia’s Timber Frontier.  Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2017.  
  • Lewis, Ronald L.  Transforming the Appalachian Countryside:  Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920.  Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Lilly, John. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal. Music in American Life. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 
  • Macdonald Associates, and Appalachian Regional Commission. Evaluation of the Formation and Operation of Timber Development Organizations in Appalachia. Appalachian Research Report, No. 1. Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, 1966. 
  • Marshall, Erynn.  Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia’s Fiddle and Song Traditions.  Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2006. 
  • Martin, C. Brenden. Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2007.
  • Mastran, Shelley Smith, Nan Lowerre, and United States Forest Service. Mountaineers and Rangers: a History of Federal Forest Management in the Southern Appalachians, 1900-81. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1983. 
  • McNeel, William Price.  The Durbin Route:  The Greenbrier Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.  Charleston, WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1985. 
  • McNeill, G.D. Tales of Pocahontas County. Marlinton, WV: Publisher not identified, 1961.
  • Milnes, Gerald.  Play of a Fiddle:  Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia.  Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
  • Mitchell, Robert D. Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society, & Development in the Preindustrial Era. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1991. 
  • Montgomery, Michael. From Ulster to America: the Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006.
  • Musick, Ruth Ann. Ballads, Folk Songs & Folk Tales from West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Library, 1960.
  • Nelson, Arnold E, Rosemary Smith Nelson, and Ozella Smith. Haven in the Hardwood: The History of Pickens, West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1971.
  • Nelson, James Poyntz.  The History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company:  Its Antecedents and Subsidiaries.  Richmond, VA: Lewis Printing, 1927.
  • Nelson, William. The History of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company at Richwood, West Virginia: Mills in Richwood, Gauley Mills, and Holcomb, West Virginia. Marietta, GA: W. Nelson, 1991.
  • Orndorff, Jan and Roger.  In Loving Memory: Back Mountain Road – Durbin to Cass (Nottingham, Hosterman, Wanless, Cass, Deer Creek, West Fork, Wildell, Gertrude, May). Unnamed publisher, undated publication. Found in McClintic Public Library, Marlinton, WV.
  • Pepper, Charles M. The Life and Times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823-1916. New York: Century, 1920. 
  • The Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes. Volume 1: Hoedowns, Breakdowns, & Reels. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Pub, 1994.
  • Pocahontas County Historical Society. History of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 1981: Birthplace of Rivers. Marlinton, WV: Pocahontas County Historical Society, 1981.
  • Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller. Appalachia in the Making: the Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
  • Rasmussen, Barbara. Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
  • Rickaby, Franz, ed.  Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy. Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1926.
  • Ritter Lumber Company, William M. The Romance of Appalachian Hardwood Lumber. Columbus, OH:  W.M. Ritter Lumber Co., 1940. 
  • Salstrom, Paul. Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
  • Sarvis, Will. The Jefferson National Forest: An Appalachian Environmental History. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
  • Schenck, Carl Alwin. The Birth of Forestry in America:  The Biltmore Forest School:  1898-1913.  Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1974.
  • Shaffer, Marguerite S. See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
  • Springer, John S. Forest Life and Forest Trees:  Comprising Winter Camp-Life Among the Loggers and Wild-Wood Adventure.  With Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1851
  • Stern, Lewis M. Dwight Diller: West Virginia Mountain Musician. Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 39. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2016. 
  • Stoll, Steven. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. New York: Hill and Wang, 2017.
  • Thomas, Jerry Bruce. An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2010.
  • Tribe, Ivan M.  Folk Music in Overdrive:  A Primer on Traditional Country and Bluegrass Artists.  Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2018.
  • Tribe, Ivan M., and Robert C. Byrd. Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
  • Walker, Laurence C. The Southern Forest: A Chronicle. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
  • Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Warden, William E. West Virginia Logging Railroads. Lynchburg, VA: TLC Pub, 1994. 
  • Weise, Robert S. Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
  • Williams, John Alexander.  Appalachia: A History. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
  • Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia: A History. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2001.
  • Williams, John Alexander.  West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, 1976.
Fictional Works:
  • Blackhurst, W. E. Mixed Harvest. Parsons, WV: McClain Print, 1970
  • Blackhurst, W. E. Of Men and a Mighty Mountain. Parsons, WV: McClain Print, 1965.
  • Blackhurst, W. E. Riders of the Flood. Parsons, WV: McClain Print, 1974.
  • Blackhurst, W.E.  Sawdust in Your Eyes.  Parsons, WV:  McClain Printing Company, 1963. 
  • Null, Matthew Neill. Honey from the Lion. Wilmington, NC: Lookout Books, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2015.
  • Skidmore, Hubert. Heaven Came So Near. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
  • Skidmore, Hubert. I Will Life Up Mine Eyes. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.

Periodicals:

  • The Log Train: Journal of the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association
  • The Southern Lumberman
  • The Timberman
  • Goldenseal
  • Foxfire
Multimedia:
  • Diller, Dwight, dir. Across the Yew Pines: The Hammonses, Descendants of the Frontier. 2013; West Virginia: Yew Pine Cultural Traditions, Inc., 2013. DVD.
  • Alexander, Robert P. Dr. Robert Alexander: a Drinko Fellows Project, Cass, West Virginia. Huntington, WV: Marshall University, 2004. Audiobook on CD.
  • Gundmundson, B.J. and Doug Chadwick, dir. Out of the Storm: the Galford Lumber Company Documentary Project. Patchwork Productions, 2001; Lewisburg, WV: Patchwork Productions, 2001. DVD.
  • Kline, Michael Noble and Carrie Nobel Kline. We’d All Be Millionaires if We Had it Now!: Reconstruction & Industrial Revolution Along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, an Audio History. Elkins, WV: Talkins Across the Lines: Worldwide Conversation, 2001. Audiobook on CD, 72 min
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