An Outer Banks Reader
by Stick, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary
Edited by the author of "Graveyard of the Atlantic" and "The Outer Banks of North Carolina", and spanning the course of more than four and a half centuries, this book presents 64 accounts of life on the Outer Banks.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| First Impressions Contact / Giovanni da Verrazzano Traffic with the Savages | |
| The Dividing Line | |
| Antebellum Nags Head | |
| Three Weddings at Hunting Quarters | |
| Bishop A Visit to Ocracoke | |
| The Natural Environment Native Agriculture | |
| Market Gunning | |
| The Hungry Horde | |
| Creatures of the Shoals | |
| A History of Blues | |
| Man versus Nature The Opening of Oregon and Hatteras Inlets | |
| TheWorstLight in the World | |
| The Sand Wave | |
| Project Nutmeg | |
| USN Man's Impact on the Barrier Islands of North Carolina | |
| Saving Nags Head Woods | |
| Lookout National Seashore: A Return to the Wild | |
| Ships and the Sea Shipwreck off Hatteras | |
| The Wreck of the USSHuron/ Joe A. Mobley | |
| The Wreck of the BarkJosie Troop/ Anonymous Wreck of the SchoonerSarah D. J. Rawson/ Anonymous | |
| The Ghost Ship Mystery of Diamond Shoals | |
| When the Ship Hit the Span | |
| The Pea Island Lifesavers | |
| War on the Banks Of Captain Teach Alias Blackbeard | |
| The Rendezvous at Hatteras | |
| Hears the News | |
| The Chicamacomico Races | |
| The Battle of Roanoke Island | |
| The MirloRescue | |
| I Wore a Dead Man's Hand | |
| Making a Living The Petition of Legal Pilots of Ocracoke Bar | |
| The Wild Horses, Their Qualities and Habits | |
| The Last Whale Killed along These Shores | |
| A Record Catch | |
| Pumping and Grinding | |
| Sharpies, Shad Boats, and Spritsail Skiffs | |
| Bread-and-Butter Fishing | |
| Ones of a Kind Stanley Wahab, Tar Heel of the Week | |
| The Mighty Midgetts of Hatteras | |
| Ban and the Infernal Engine | |
| Old Quork | |
| Whedbee Les and Sally Moore, Pioneers | |
| Ad Man, Con Man, Photographer, and Legend | |
| A Time to Reap | |
| The Last of the Currituck Beach Cowboys | |
| The Crab Picker | |
| Visitors Leave Their Footprints The Governor Returns | |
| Gray-Eyed Indians | |
| The Nag's Head Picture of Theodosia Burr | |
| Freshwater Pool Our Winds Are Always Steady | |
| The Campers at Kitty Hawk | |
| The Forgotten Pioneer | |
| Lifestyles America's First Science Center | |
| The Contraband Colony | |
| The Eye of the Tempest | |
| Highway | |
| Sources | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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