Explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. While this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret Lynn Brown concludes that the region is in fact a re-created wilderness--a product of restoration and manipulation of the land.

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about new research and initiatives that are restoring native plants and wildlife populations in the twenty-first century.