Through the Mountains

WINNER, NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISTORIANS AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Two generations have passed since the publication of Wilma Dykeman’s landmark environmental history, The French Broad . In Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time , John Ross updates that seminal book with groundbreaking new research. More than the story of a single river, Through the Mountains covers the entire watershed from its headwaters in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains to its mouth in