A vanishing America : the life and times of the small town / Twelve regional towns by Hodding Carter ; Thomas D. Clark [and others]; introd. by Wallace Stegner; edited by Thomas C. Wheeler.

Twelve writers seek to recapture the lore and legends, local color, enterprises, and vanishing values that have marked rural life in America

Vision of a Yankee : Middlebury, Vermont / W. Storrs Lee -- Individualists under the shade trees : Pine Grove, Pennsylvania / Conrad Richter -- First pioneer blazed a resort : Harrodsburg, Kentucky / Thomas D. Clark -- Proud struggle for grace : Holly Springs, Mississippi / Hodding Carter -- Social experiments on the Wabash : New Harmony, Indiana / William E. Wilson -- Gentility in a new New England : Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota / James Gray -- Gateway of a gaining nation : Nacogdoches, Texas / John Edward Weems -- Still young sunlight : Chimayo, New Mexico / Winfield Townley Scott -- Rocky Mountain fantasy : Telluride, Colorado / David Lavender -- End of their wanderings : Choteau, Montana / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Victorian shadows on Walnut and Main : Red Bluff, California / Oscar Lewis -- Last frontier in a dark forest : Forks, Washington / William O. Douglas