The Battle of Kings Mountain was the turning point of the American Revolution. After more than five years of fighting, the British invaded the southern colonies expecting to amass an army of Loyalists. Instead, they were met by backcountry militiamen from today's east Tennessee and southwest Virginia, who marched over the mountains and defeated Ferguson's detachment at King's Mountain, destroying a third of Lord Cornwallis's army.

This guide leads heritage tourists along the 330-mile Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail from southwest Virginia into East Tennessee over the Appalachian Mountains into the Piedmont of North Carolina and then on to Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail was the first national historic trail established in the eastern U.S. 132 pp.

One hundred years ago, the Daughters of the American Revolution left for us all a legacy of patriotic commemoration Daniel Boone s Trail. During 1912-1915, the Daughters in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky erected 45 metal tablets across four hundred miles to honor the life of Daniel Boone and to mark for future generations his path through the Appalachian Mountain barrier, a path that enabled America s Western Movement. The idea for such a trail sprang from the creative mind of the industrious Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A patriotic public...

From 1963 to 1973 the Daniel Boone Wagon Train attracted enthusiastic pioneer "wannabes" to Northwest North Carolina for an exciting frontier experience. Each June, hundreds of folks brought their old, wooden-wheeled wagons pulled by horses, mules, and oxen and loaded them with ample provisions, excited families, and dreams of adventure. They traveled in a caravan for four days through the foothills and over the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains to parade through the streets of Boone, the town named in honor of America's pioneer hero. Part historical reenactment, part rolling, rollicking...

"From Time to Time in North Carolina" is a collection of 45 guest columns written by award-winning history author and storyteller Randell Jones and printed in the Winston-Salem Journal during the last two decades. He wrote to celebrate obscure anniversaries and little known heroes. And, when he found a current event so reminiscent of some prior incident, he wrote about intriguing and sometimes bothersome analogs from years gone by, remarkable parallels to current events. "I do not believe that history repeats itself," he says, "but human nature does, and so we find our collective decisions...