Rural Appalachia in the Nineteenth Century--II

1. The Export Economy
   1. Sale of Surpluses
      1. Grains
      2. Livestock
   2. Services to Travelers
      1. The Great Livestock Drives
      2. Migrants to the West--The "Wilderness Road"
      3. Resorts
   3. Manufacturing
      1. Food
         1. Flour and Meal
         2. Distilling
      2. Iron
      3. Salt
      4. Mining--Coal, Copper, Gold, etc.
2. A Nonspecialized Rural Society
   1. The Fundamental Unit--The Stream Bed [Coves, Hollows, Valleys]--Dense Kinship Ties
   2. Household Production
      1. Crops and Livestock
      2. Hunting and Gathering
      3. Home Manufactures
   3. The Point of Contact With the Outside World--The Merchant
      1. Thinness, Dispersion of Trade--Lack of Town Development
      2. Prevalence of General Merchandising--Selling (and Buying) Anything
      3. Manufacturing Functions--Merchants as Millers
   4. Beginnings of a Mountain Elite
3. A "Golden Age"?