Download or read book The Road to Wildcat written by Eleanor De La Vergne Risley and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the travels in North Alabama in the mid-1920s of Eleanor Risley (suffering from diabetes), her asthmatic husband, Pierre, and their dog, John. First published in segments in the Atlantic Monthly in 1928 and 1929, the travelogue is a colorful record of the culture, customs and dialect of the southern mountaineers of that era.