"GINSENG DIGGERS: A HISTORY OF ROOT AND HERB GATHERING IN APPALACHIA" by Luke Manget (University of Kentucky Press, 304 pages, $28). In the 19th century, large numbers of people living in Southern and ...
Historian Luke Manget's eureka moment came as he thumbed through the pages of a dusty 1870s business ledger from an old general store in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The book had not been opened in a ...