| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Canada and the United States

Timothy Silver. Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xxii, 322. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.

Recently, some scholars of the southern Appalachians have begun to look less at the players in the region's great drama and instead examine the stage. Despite the fine contributions of Ronald L. Lewis, Donald Edward Davis, Daniel S. Pierce, and Margaret Lynn Brown, argues Timothy Silver, earlier attempts at Appalachian environmental history have given nature short shrift, often seeing it as little more than a "supporting actor" (p. xv). Silver, instead, has sought to produce a volume in which nature gets equal billing with people; but he admits initially wondering whether he could add anything new to western North Carolina's Black Mountains (he does) and whether a person unfamiliar with the region would, or should, care (yes, one should).

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