The best book on the Appalachian South is Horace Kephart's _Our Southern Highlanders_ (1913).

William Garrott Brown's _The Lower South in American History_ (1902) contains some interesting matter.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT There are several excellent works on cotton and the cotton trade, chief among which are M.B.

Hammond's _The Cotton Industry_ (1897) and C.W.
Burkett and C.H.

Poe's _Cotton, its Cultivation, Marketing, Manufacture, and the Problems of the Cotton World_ (1906).

D.A.Tompkins, in _Cotton and Cotton Oil_ (1901), gives valuable material but is rather discursive.