Ginseng diggers: a history of root and herb gathering in Appalachia
Introduction: From "roots and herbs" to "crude botanical drugs" -- The journey of Ewing's roots : American Ginseng and the China trade -- Appalachia's first ginseng boom and the evolution of commons culture -- Marketing the mountain commons : Calvin J. Cowles and the origins of the botanical drug trade -- Mountain entrepreneurs : the Civil War and the botanical drug boom, 1861-1919 -- Nature's emporium : root diggers and herb gatherers in post-Civil War Appalachia -- "Beasts in the garden" : class, conservation, and cultivation -- Progress and ginseng : the growth of the sang digger stereotype -- Epilogue: The decline of root and herb gathering and the fate of the commons.