| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen, editors. High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. vi, 240. Cloth $40.00, paper $20.00.
In his introduction to this much-needed and important book, Richard A. Straw, co-editor with H. Tyler Blethen, tells what happened when, in 1970, he suggested to a professor the idea of teaching a course in Appalachian history. Such an undertaking would present a problem, the professor said, "because Appalachia has no history." So some progress has been made, and today we can say, yes, there is an Appalachian history. For overwhelming evidence I refer to these splendid essays by distinguished scholars, not only of history but of several other disciplines as well. Approximately half of the fourteen contributions to this highly readable text deal with historical subjects from Native Americans to modernization, while the remaining ones are concerned with cultural themes such as folk life, language, literature, religion, and stereotypes.	1
In his celebrated book, The Hero: a Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama (1936), Lord Raglan reminds us that there are two types of truth, historic and dramatic or mythical. So, wisely, do the editors of this text.	. . .

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