The Shenandoah

Julia Davis
Introduction by Christopher Camuto

October 2011
400pp
HC/J 978-1-933202-95-2
$24.99
PDF 978-1-933202-96-9
$24.99

Summary

In 1945, West Virginia author Julia Davis penned The Shenandoah as part of the Rivers of America Series, a landmark collection of books written by literary figures over a period of thirty years. In this classic reprint, now with an introduction by Christopher Camuto, Davis tells the history of the Shenandoah Valley and River, drawing on her own research and the experiences of ancestors who settled and lived in the area. Her book provides a poetic vision of both the river and the valley, preserving a fragment of America’s landscape.

Introduction
Christopher Camuto
Map
George Annand
Part I: Promise
1. Song
2. The Unrecorded Past
3. Exploration
4. Settlement
5. Pioneers
6. Washington
7. Massacres
8. Fort Loudoun
9. Revolution
10. Expansion
11. Inventions
Part II: Holocaust
12. The Fateful Lightning
13. The Swift Sword
14. Marching On
15. The Invaded
16. Valley Campaign I
17. Valley Campaign II
18. Valley Campaign III
19. The Long Year
20. The Burning
21. The Starving Crows
Part III: The Recovery
22. The Hero
23. The Fait
24. Fool’s Gold and True Gold
25. Past Into Present
26. Valley Tour I
27. Valley Tour II
28. Valley Tour III
29. Epilogue
30. Postscript
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author

Author

Julia Davis Adams (1901–1993) was born in Clarksburg, WV, attended Wellesley College, and graduated from Barnard College in 1922. She began her career as a reporter for the Associated Press in New York City, where she also headed the adoption service of the Children’s Aid Society in the early 1960s. She authored two dozen books.

Christopher Camuto is the author of a rough-hewn trilogy on the southern Appalachians—A Fly Fisherman’s Blue Ridge, Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains, and Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Montains—as well as Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island. He manages a biodiversity perserve, an 80-acre eco-restoration of old farm fields, woodlots, and wetlands, in Pennsylvania.