Mountain People in a Flat Land - 9780821412305

Mountain People in a Flat LandA Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 19401965\nAuthor(s): Carl E. Feather\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821412305, 978-0821412305\nSynopsis\nIn the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom. Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community - Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled best location in the nation.\n These mig.