Journal of Backcountry Studies. Illustration: Salem in the Early 1800s, by Pauline Bahnson Gray, 1954

The Journal of Backcountry Studies is a refereed scholarly journal on the Internet focused on the colonial history of the Backcountry - the rural corridor that stretches from southern Pennsylvania to Augusta, Ga.

Volume III, Issue 2 (Fall 2008)

Table of Contents
Rebecca Taft Fecher, The Trading Path and North Carolina
Richard Osborn, William Preston and the Revolutionary Settlement

Charles F. Irons, "Other Souths": The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alamance County, North Carolina
Carole Watterson Troxler, Scalawags Among Us: Alamance County Among the "Other Souths"
Robert C. Kenzer, An Examination of "Other Souths"
Book Reviews

Ellen Eslinger, Review of Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia by Ann Smart Martin.

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Illustration Above: "Salem in the Early 1800s," by Pauline Bahnson Gray, 1954. Reproduced with permission of Old Salem, Inc.