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        • NC Camo Coalition
    • Diversity >
      • WOMEN ON THE FLY
      • BSA Merit Badge
    • We welcome your feedback!
    • Become a TU Member
    • Mission and Brief History
  • FORR
  • Programs
    • Trout In The Classroom
    • RiverCourse Fly Fishing Youth Camp
    • Casting Carolinas
    • Wilson Creek Adopt-A-Stream and Stream Watch
    • South Mountain Adopt-A-Park
    • Stone Mountain State Park
  • Resources
    • Fly of the Month Patterns >
      • DRY FLY PATTERNS >
        • Adams Variant
        • Asher
        • Atherton No 5
        • Baigent's Variant
        • Blue Quill
        • BWO
        • BWO Catskill
        • BWO CDC Emerger
        • BWO Sparkle Dun
        • BWO Spinner
        • Carolina Wulff
        • CDC Biot Comparadun
        • CDL Comparadun
        • Coachman Variant
        • Conner's October Caddis
        • Crackleback
        • Dragonfly Dry
        • Dry Pheasant Tail Variant
        • Dun Fly, August Fly,Wasp Fly
        • Early Nelson
        • Egg Laying Caddis
        • Troth Elk Hair Caddis FFI
        • Elk Hair Caddis
        • EZ Caddis
        • Female Adams
        • Fluttering Caddis
        • Ginger Quill
        • Gray Fox Variant
        • Grey Hackle Yellow Dry
        • Griffith's Gnat
        • Hazel Creek
        • Hendrickson
        • H & L Variant
        • Hopper Juan
        • Infallible
        • Japanese Beetle
        • Jassid
        • Jim Charley
        • Klinkhamer
        • Lacewing
        • Light Cahill Catskill
        • Little Green and Little Yellow Stonefly
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • North Carolina Yellow Sally
        • FFI Parachute Adams
        • Parachute Adams
        • Pheasant Tail Dry Fly.Skues
        • Puff Diddy
        • October Caddis
        • Orange Forked Tail
        • Rattler
        • Red Headed Caddis
        • Smoky Mountian Candy
        • Sunkist
        • Trude
        • Rusty Spinner
        • Sulphurs Part 1
        • Sulphur Part 2
        • Yellow Palmer
      • Dry Attractor
      • Midges >
        • Grey Goose Midge Emerger
        • Morgan's Midge
      • Nymphs >
        • Brassie
        • Chironimid
        • Copper John
        • Crossover Nymph
        • Crow Fly
        • Damsel Fly Nymph
        • Deep Sparkle Caddis Pupa
        • Devil's Doorstop
        • Girdle Bug
        • Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
        • Guinea
        • Hare's Ear Nymph FFI
        • Hot Creek Special
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • Peridgon Nymph
        • BH Prince Nymph FFI
        • BH Prince Nymph
        • Realistic Stonefly
        • Royal Prince
        • Secret Weapon
        • Scud
        • Egan's Tasmanian Devil
        • Tups Indespensible
      • Pupae/Larva
      • Scud >
        • UV Scud
      • Soft Hackles >
        • Center Bead Soft Hackle
        • Grey Hackle Soft hackle
        • Orange Partridge Soft Hackle
      • Terrestrials >
        • Amy's Ant
        • Alen's Cow Killer
        • Cricket
        • Inchworm
        • Jack Cabe Hopper
        • Little River Ant
        • Moth
        • Murray's Flying Beetle
        • Parachute Ant
        • Texas Piss Ant
      • Wet Fly Patterns >
        • Black Gnat
        • Blue Charm FFI
        • Breadcrust
        • Coachman
        • Cock-y-Bundhu
        • Cooper Bug
        • Grizzly King
        • Ibis
        • Parmacheene Belle
        • Orange and Partridge Soft Hackle FFIFFI
        • Red Ass Soft Hackle
        • Tups Indespensible
    • Fly Patterns
    • RRTU Class Recipes
    • NC General Hatch Charts
    • Fly Shops, Outfitters and Guides
    • Fly Fishing >
      • RRTU Reference Fly Tying >
        • Entomology Basics
        • More Entomology Basics
      • More Fly Fishing Basics
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Rocky River Trout Unlimited Reference Library - Recommended Reading
Southern Appalachian and Smoky Mountains History
(books and media)


Alley, Felix. Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer. Privately printed for the author, 1941.
(scathing criticism of the writings of Horace Kephart and  Margaret Morley)
Arthur, John Preston. Western North Carolina History from 1790 to 1913. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1996.
Berkeley, Edmund and Dorothy Smith (Editors). The Life and Travels of John Bartram. Talahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1982.
Boyden, Lucile Kirby. The Village of Five Lives: The Fontana of the Great Smoky Mountains. Fontana Dam, NC: Government Services, Inc., 1964.
Campbell, John C. The Southern  Highlander and His Homeland. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1921.
Casada, Jim. Fly Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: An Insider's Guide to A Pursuit of Passion. ?,NC: High Country Press, 2009.
Davis, Harrie Caldwell.Cataloochee Valley: Vanished Settlements of the Great Smoky Mountains. Alexander, NC: Worlomm, 1997.
Davis, Harrie Caldwell. Step Back in Time: See Historic Cataloochee, Valley of the Elk. Maggie Valley, NC: Printed for the author, 2002.
Duckett, Randall and Maryellen. 100 Secrets of the Smokies. Nashville, TN: Ruthledge Hill Press, 1998.
Dunn, Durwood. Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community,1818-1937. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
Ellison, George. "Mark Cathey."  In The Heritage of Swain  County, N.C. Edited by Hazel Jenkins. Winston Salem, NC: History Division of Hunter Publishing, 1988.
Hall, Joseph S. Yarns and  Tales from the Great Smokies.  Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press,1978.
Hall, Joseph S. Sayings from Old Smoky.Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, 1972.
Hall, Joseph S. Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore. Asheville, NC: Norman Printing Company, 1960.
Hall, Joseph S. Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore, 1937.
Hargan, Jim. The Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains: An Explorer's Guide.  Woodstock, VT:  Countryman Press, 2002.
Harper, Francis (Editor). Bartram's Travels. New  Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1958.
Holland, Lance. Fontana: A Pocket History of Appalachia.  Robbinsville, NC: Privately printed for the author, 2001.
Houk, Rose. Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Natural History Guide. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Hoyle, J. Vernon. A Place  to Call Home: Memoirs of J. Vernon Hoyle, a Mountain Man. Sylva, NC: Jackson County Historical Association,  2001. Hunter Publishing, 1988.
Hollar, Cato. Adventures of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of an  American Sportsman. Old Fort, NC: Hollow Hills  Publishing, 1998.
Hunnicutt,  Samuel J. Twenty Years of Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains. Maryville, TN: Byron's Publishers, 1951.
Jolley, Harley E. "That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace:" The Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina, 1933-1944. Raleigh, NC: Office of  Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2007.
Kephart, Horace. Our Southern Highlanders. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
Kephart, Horace. Our Southern Highlanders. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
Mason, Robert L. The Lure of the Great Smokies, 1927.
Medford, W. Clark. The Middle History of Haywood County. Waynesville, NC: Privately printed for the author, 1968.
Medford, W. Clark. The Early History of Haywood County. Asheville, NC: Miller Printing Company,1961.
Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Nashville: Charles and Randy Elder Publishing,1982.
Morley, Margaret W. The Carolina Mountains.  Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. (chapter on the Smokies)
National Park Service. Great Smoky Mountains (Handbook 112: National Park Handbook series). Washington, DC: Dept. of the Interior, 1981.
Oliver, Duane. "Life on Chambers Creek, 1891-1904," The  Bone Rattler, Volume 18, No. 1, 2002, pp. 40-42.
Peattie, Roderick (Editor). The Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge. NY: Vangard Press, 1941.
Pierce, Daniel S. The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to  National Park. Knoxville, TN: University of  Tennessee Press, 2000.
Powers, Elizabeth, with Mark Hannah. Cataloochee, Lost Settlement  of the Smokies. Charleston, SC: Powers-Hannah, 1982.
Span, Jerry. Twentymile Area of the Smokies. Fontana Dam, NC: Bardin & Marsee Publishing, 2008.
Thornborough, Laura. The Great Smoky Mountains. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1937.
Webb, Janet Threlkeld. Hawywood County: A Brief History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006.
Wiggonton, Elliot. Foxfire Five. (Foxfire. Multi-volume series.) Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1979
Zeigler, Wilbur G. and Grosscup, Ben S. The Heart of the  Alleghanies; or Western North Carolina: Comprising Its Topography, History, Resources, People,  Narratives, Incidents, and Pictures of Travel Adventures in Hunting and  Fishing,1883. (chapter with Rod and  Line focusing on specks with a slender birch cut from the bank of the stream  or fly rod and wet fly)
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