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Longstreet Highroad
Guide to the North Carolina Mountains
By Lynda McDaniel |
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Acknowledgments
A book of this scope requires the help of many people and resources. I am particularly
grateful for the research and editorial assistance of Paige Blomgren, Bob Gale,
Carrie A. A. Frye, Peter Gregutt, Clare Hanrahan, and Ashley Felkel. My thanks,
too, go out to Sylvia Mann, Tracey Turner, J. P. McCann, Laura Elliott, Glenn
Taylor, Richard Bruce, Kevin Moorhead, Jerry West, Ernest Klatt, and Ina Parr
and her coworkers at the Blue Ridge Parkway for their assistance. I am indebted
to Dr. Hal Mahan, who wrote the introduction, and his wife, Laura, for their
guidance and friendship. To ensure accuracy, I called on the expertise of several
people, especially Dr. J. W. Miller, head of environmental sciences at the University
of North Carolina at Asheville. Bob and Gussie Gray and Al Sommerville, volunteers
with the Blue Ridge Parkway; Nancy Gray at the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park; Burt Kornegay of Slickrock Expeditions; and Dwayne Stutzman, Mountain
Region trails specialist, also served as patient and careful proofers. A special
thanks to the staff at Ashevilles Pack Memorial Library, especially those
working the North Carolina Desk, where they dig and search until they find just
the right fact, map, or article. I also want to express my gratitude for the
fine, historic work of the WPA and the CCC, without whom we would not have so
many wonderful places to write about. Finally, there are many friends who loaned
books and offered support: Glenda and Phillip Herman, Virginia McCullough, Nancy
Byer, and, as always, Don McNair.
Published (print): 1999, Published (Web): December 2000, Revised
(Web): November 2002, ISBN: 1-56352-463-5