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coal making on “hearths” or “pits” for iron smelting, tobacco growing, construction of cross-mountain turnpikes and travel on these roads, timbering and sawing of lumber, barrel making, and plantation houses of that era. A useful series would be scenes of cattle operations with increasing conflict with automobiles.
An old book or magazine may have a drawing of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or Stonewall Jackson riding horseback in the mountains. There may be illustrations of locally significant persons such as James Barbour, promoter of the “Big Surveys”; Francis Thornton of Thornton Gap; Francis Kirtley, owner of plantations at Swift Run Gap and elsewhere; Thomas Lewis, Lord Fairfax, the Browns of Browns Gap or the Bucks of Dickey Ridge. Any authentic drawings of early man or Indians of the area would be very helpful.
The Office of the Shenandoah Natural History Association is at the headquarters of Shenandoah National Park, near Luray, and the telephone number is (703) 999-2243, ext 581. The author can be reached at (703) 743-7246. Any chosen illustrations will be copied or photographed and the originals returned to the contributor. The new book is scheduled to be published in 1988, and the illustrations will be decided upoh in January.
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