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• A Tar-Heel Baron (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), by Mabell S. C. Smith, illust. by Edward Stratton Holloway (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Sea-gift : a novel (E.J. Hale & Son, 1873), by Edwin W. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tar Heel Tales, by H. E. C. Bryant (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, 1885), by Charles Egbert Craddock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jesus in America, and Other Stories From the Field (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), by Claudia Gould
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Lord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by John Forrest, illust. by Deborah Blincoe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Plantation Sketches (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1906), by Margaret Devereux (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of a refugee slave (E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 67 Union Street., 1871), by Thomas H. Jones, Mass.) E. Anthony & Sons (New Bedford, and Taylor & Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern sidelights, a record of personal experience ... (Edwards & Broughton co., 1942), by William E. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idle comments (Avery, 1905), by Isaac Erwin Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of life in North Carolina. Embracing incidents and narratives, and personal adventures of the author during forty years of travel. With an appendix, in which the Papacy is shown from the Scriptures to be the great Anti-Christ ; and the false and corrupt system is exposed. (W. C. Phillips, printer, 1894), by R. R. Michaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the past sixty years (Presses of Ray printing co., 1908), by J. B. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from the past (The author, 1921), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idle comments (Stone Pub. Co., 1912), by Isaac Erwin Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the inhabitants, localities, superstitions and Kuklux outrages of the Carolinas. ([Cleveland? Ohio], 1880), by John Paterson Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the inhabitants, localities, superstitions and Kuklux outrages of the Carolinas. ([Cleveland? O.], 1880), by John Patterson Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grandmother's recollection of Dixie (O.G. Dunn, printer, 1912), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Carolina illustrated (1857), by David Hunter Strother (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-lore of the North Carolina mountains (1920), by Emily Elizabeth Bayley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of the inhabitants, localities, superstitions and Kuklux outrages of the Carolinas ([s.n.], 1880), by John Patterson Green and Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law tales for laymen (A. Williams & co., 1925), by Joseph Lacy Seawell (page images at HathiTrust)
• En svenska i Amerika : erfarenhet och hugkomst ifrån sex år i de Förenta Staterna (F.L. Blomqvist, 1860), by Young lady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation Sketches, by Margaret Devereux, ed. by Arthur Winslow (Gutenberg ebook)

• Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 (New Haven: Yale University Press, c1921), by Janet Schaw, ed. by Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews
  • 1921 printing; illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • 1923 printing; multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of a Tour to North Carolina (1787 journal published in 1922), by William Attmore, ed. by Lida Tunstall Rodman (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James B. Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections : written in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (s.n., 1921), by James Lee Love (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Idle comments (Avery, 1905), by Isaac Erwin Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idle comments (Stone Pub. Co., 1912), by Isaac Erwin Avery (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections : written in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (s.n., 1921), by James Lee Love (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore (c1960), by Joseph S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Highland homeland : the people of the Great Smokies (Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Division of Publications : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by Wilma Dykeman and Jim Stokely (page images at HathiTrust)
• At home in the Smokies : a history handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1984), by Wilma Dykeman and United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (page images at HathiTrust)

• Qualla. (J.B. Lippincott and Co.], 1875), by Rebecca Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Whitaker's reminiscences, incidents and anecdotes : recollections of other days and years : or, what I saw and heard and thought of people whom I knew, and what they did and said (Edwards & Broughton, 1905), by R. H. Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raleigh recipe book. (Published by the ladies of Christ Church, 1916), by N.C.) Christ Church (Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fisher's River (North Carolina) scenes and characters (Harper & Brothers, 1859), by Hardin E. Taliaferro (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters: By "Skitt", "Who Was Raised Thar" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1859), by Hardin E. Taliaferro, illust. by John McLenan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fisher's River scenes. (Reproduced from the original by J.A. Snow, 1958), by Hardin E. Taliaferro and John Allen Snow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Field study of Negro conditions. (New York : [Home Missions Council], 1917., 1917), by E. C. Branson and H. N. Morse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections of slavery times (Chas. W. Burbank & Co., Printers, 1895), by Allen Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Christmas city of the old south (University of Northern Iowa, 1923), by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A grandmother's recollection of Dixie (O.G. Dunn, printer, 1912), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)

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