Not only is THE LAST TRAIN FROM ELKLAND a brief history of four northwestern North Carolina mountain communities, it is also about two railroads that operated i

In 1904, when the Hassinger brothers ¿ Luther (L. C.), Will, and John ¿ came from the northwestern Pennsylvania county of Forest to the southwestern Virginia

THE RAILROAD TO NOWHERE contains the stories of five northwestern North Carolina business ventures: the Copper Knob Mine (a.k.a. the Gap Creek Mine); "Cowles' S

Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a

The six stories contained in this collection may all be different in their contents, but they all share one common theme: they are all set in North Africa. Scat