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ix ACknowledgments I offer my sincere thanks to my colleagues at Appalachian State University who so kindly supported and encouraged me in this pursuit. The W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection has provided most of the resources cited in this book. Many of them would have remained undiscovered without the gracious and expert help of Dean Williams and Dianna Johnson of the Belk Library Interlibrary Loan Department, who dug deep to obtain rare and obscure documents and monographs for my research. Thomas Main helped to decipher the various formats of the text in order to replicate the diary as closely as possible. Those who have written histories of their families, towns, churches, and schools have my hearty thanks; without them I could not have provided the detailed commentary about the places Olive Dame and John C. Campbell visited and the people they met on their trip through the region. Lastly, I gratefully acknowledge the expert advice and guidance of my advisers and colleagues Sandra Ballad, Thomas McGowan, and John Alexander Williams. ...

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