Billy Yeargin: 3 books

North Carolina�s tobacco history comes alive in this selection of remembrances from Billy Yeargin and others born and bred in the American tobacco culture.When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina�s sandy soil, tobacco was a boon. The lives of many North Carolinians...

The days when rural life revolved around tobacco planting and harvest are gone, but many fondly remember when North Carolina was the state of farming, planting and picking tobacco. In this book, historian Billy Yeargin takes readers back to the days when communities were founded and built upon tobacco...

Burley tobacco revolutionized the industry in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. What started from two farmers planting white burley in Greeneville ignited an agricultural revolution and significantly changed crops, production and quality. Burley transformed the tobacco industry with new cultivation...