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or click for: Manhattan Project National Historical Park,   Shiloh National Military Park   Stones River National Battlefield

ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES. by Fran Hubbard.
Children's book on how animals of Great Smoky Mountains live through year, including "teeth are like tools", "facts about feet". Some of the animals included are bear, deer, lion, fox, weasel, mink, opossum, vole, bats, and beavers. Mentions species that were once present but are now gone. Illustrations by Bob Hines, 32 large-format pages.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: AWAN6164 paper$4.95.

 

 

CIVIL WAR PARKS: the story behind the scenery. Davis.
Overview of war through capsule descriptions of 26 battle parks. 71 color photos, 64 large-format pages.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: 0-916122-95-6. 1984. Order #: KCPU0713 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

THE GOOD SERVANT: making peace with the Bomb at Los Alamos. by Janet Bailey.
Roles of this scientific community in making nuclear weapons and peacetime research. How these products have been and could be used in war and how they have also helped reduce the chance of war, even perhaps causing the end of the Cold War. Behind-the-scenes look at the labs and scientists involved in this work, including those in Russia. 188 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-684-80939-7. 1995. Order #: SISC6103 cloth $22.00.

 

 

AT HOME IN THE SMOKIES: a history handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Wilma Dykeman & Jim Stokely.
National Park Service Handbook #125 to people who settled and lived in these Tennessee/North Carolina mountains: native Americans, history, historical sites. Includes Cherokee presence, pioneers, sawmills, creation of the park, local handicrafts. Also sections on Oconaluftee, Cades Cove, and other historic sites in the park and nearby. Historical illustrations, 160 pages, index.
Inventory = 3. ISBN: 024-005-00902-7. 1984. Order #: USGB4605 paper$8.95.

 

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--cloth. Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-684-80400-X. 1995. Order #: SISC6083 cloth $32.50.

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--paper. by Richard Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-684-82414-0. 1995. Order #: SISC8812 paper $16.00.

 

 

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS & SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARKS, BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY and surrounding area. by Dorothy Millikan.
Rand McNally National Parks Recreation Directory published in cooperation with National Parks Foundation. Includes Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Baltimore; Knoxville; and Chattanooga. Describes points of interest and rates each by must visit, worth visiting, and visit if time permits. Includes guided tours, seasons, gateways, scenic overlooks and drives, terrain, and activities plus concise coverage of the major sights of leading nearby cities. Color photographs, maps, 176 large-format pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-528-84759-7. 1984. Back cover bent, scuffed. Order #: RAMC2399 paper$9.95.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. by Rand McNally.
Rand McNally National Parks Recreaton Directory. Including surrounding area, Atlanta, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. History and sightseeing opportunities and scenic drives and tours are presented for localities, parks, and museums. Verify data pre-trip. Maps, 160 pages.
Inventory = 6. ISBN:0-528-84762-7. 1984. Order #: RAMC2952 paper $3.95.

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS: wonderland for boys and girls. by Lura D. Dickson.
Describes features of this national park in juvenile format--domes and balds, wildlife, pioneers, waterfalls, more. Illustrated, 144 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: None. 1968. Order #: MISC9388 paper$6.00.

 

 

 

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS: the story behind the scenery(VA). Canter.
Shaping land, wildlife and flowers, hill people of national park in NC/TN. 46 color photos, 48 large-format pages. 1979.
Inventory = 10. ISBN: 0-916122-59-X. 1981. Second printing. Order #: KCPU0743 paper$8.95.

 

 

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK. by Ruth Radlauer.
Historical and geographical features: pioneers and their ways of building  houses, raising food, making molasses, home-made music. Color photos and maps, 48 pages. Grades 4-5.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: 0-516-47489-8. Order #: CHIL5722 paper$4.95.

 

 

THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB-paper. by Richard Rhodes.
Complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the 1900s discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Beginning as an interesting speculative problem in physics, the effort grew into the Manhattan Project and then rapidly into the bomb itself, produced by scientists known only to their peers but to assume notoriety and controversy. Photographs, 886 pages, bibliography and index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-684-81378-5. 1986. Order #: SISC6151 paper $16.00.

 

MOUNTAIN HOME: the Walker family farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. by Robert R. Madden and T. Russell Jones.
Genealogy of the family and early history of the house's occupants, of the farmstead adjacent to the house, construction style of squared logs, layout of rooms and functions, furnishings, hand-made products, adaptation of the family to the mountain ways of living. Photographs, drawings 55pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 024-005-00671-1. 1977. Front cover top edge ragged. Order #: USGB9578 paper$9.50.

 

ON THE SPINE OF TIME: an angler's love of the Smokies. Harry Middleton. Evokes the deep, rich beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains while introducing local characters and bringing to life the pleasures of fishing its trout-filled streams. Part autobiography and part homage to the two old men who taught him to love the outdoors. Filled with neat anecdotes and salty reflections. Award-winner. 240 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN:0-671-69141-4  1991. Order #: SISC7154 cloth $18.95.

 

 

SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK (TN). by Albert Dillahunty.
National Park Service Historical Handbook # 10. Story of 2 -day Civil War battle of 1862 which showed Confederates the abilities of the Union Army, doubted before, and led to continued difficulties for the South. The war campaign preliminary to this battle is presented as troops moved into positions and then events of each day are detailed with attacks, stand-offs, retreats, relocations. Roles of leaders is presented, and their tactics and fates. The battle resulted in the two sides reporting 24,000 troops killed, wounded, or missing, a significant portion of both armies lost. Includes guide to and descriptions of battlefield sites and remaining evidence. Presents some of the music and poetry that followed the engagement and observes the nearby national cemetery. Black-and-white photographs, some historical, and maps, 48 pages.
Inventory = 3. ISBN: 024-005-00161-1. 1961.  Order #: USGB2330 paper$4.95.

 

STONES RIVER--bloody winter in Tennessee. by James Lee McDonough.
Documents Civil War battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that began the last day of 1862 when 10,000 Confederate soldiers streamed into the Federal forces while they were still breakfasting in camp. Despite such a surprise, victory was won by the Union forces and the result was to offset other losses they had had, to discourage Britain and France from intervening for the Confederacy, and to cause dissension in the high command of the South's leaders and to demoralize their rank soldiers. It was one of the significant engagements of this war. Now a National Park Service historic area Drawings, 271 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-87049-301-9. 1980. Order #: UTEN2132 cloth $16.95.

 

 

SUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN COOK BOOK. by Ferne Shelton..
Over 175 old-timey Highland recipes and remedies from the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains: apple brown betty, gooseberry preserves, roasted quail, fried green apples, Smoky Mountain mystery cake, rhubarb nectar, corn pones, pickled d crab apples, and many more both unusual and more traditional. 32 pages.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: None. 1964. Order #: HUTC0622 paper $3.95.

 

 

A TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS REGION. by Jeff Bradley.
Features museums, events of the southern Appalachians of Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, & Georgia. Includes famous attractions like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cumberland Gap, the Biltmore Estate and also the back roads and hills, illuminating the uniqueness of this region's people. Maps, 288 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-91678-64-4. 1985. Order #: KAMP0698 paper$10.95.

 

 

WORTHWHILE PLACES: correspondence of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Horace M. Albright. edited by Joseph W. Ernst.
Illustrates a remarkable public-private partnership that helped shape our national park system, documented through 211 letters covering a 36-year period. Rockefeller and Albright shared a common concern and love of America;s natural had historic heritage and combined the opportunities of both the private sector by Rockefeller and the public one of Albright, a National Park Service director who remained active in parks conservation his entire life. Parks involved include--in some cases as to their establishment: Acadia, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Yosemite, Virgin Islands as well as other areas such as the California Big Trees, Florida's Bald Cypress Swamp, and Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg. Photographs, maps, 366 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-8032-1330-7. 1991 Order #: MISC2732 paper $14.95.

 

 

List of National Park System areas in Tennessee:
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Big South Fork National River & Recreational Area
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
Cumberland National Historical Park
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Natchez Trace Parkway
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail
Obed Wild & Scenic River
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
Shiloh National Military Park
Stones River National Battlefield
Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area
Trail of Tears National Hstoric Trail

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