This is an alternative tourist guide to our fair city, based on the way real people really visit. Walking tours, historical notes, fun things to do, free things to do, free parking and much more. It is a best-seller hereabouts, what can I say?

Nan Chase did her homework. This one takes a hard look at the ups and downs and ins and outs of the Paris of the South. An excellent resource.

This one's a classic. Not much use as a guide these days since the town has changed so much in the years since it was printed, but a fine snapshot of Ashvegas late in the last century.

NASCAR had its roots here. This is the story of those early years when boys learned to race by running white lightning on blacktop mountain roads.