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Horace Kephart. Our Southern Highlanders
Our Southern Highlanders
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS
OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS
CHAPTER I
“SOMETHING HIDDEN; GO AND FIND IT”
CHAPTER II
“THE BACK OF BEYOND”
CHAPTER III
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER IV
A BEAR HUNT IN THE SMOKIES
CHAPTER V
MOONSHINE LAND
CHAPTER VI
WAYS THAT ARE DARK
CHAPTER VII
A LEAF FROM THE PAST
CHAPTER VIII
“BLOCKADERS” AND “THE REVENUE”
CHAPTER IX
THE OUTLANDER AND THE NATIVE
CHAPTER X
THE PEOPLE OF THE HILLS
CHAPTER XI
THE LAND OF DO WITHOUT
CHAPTER XII
HOME FOLKS AND NEIGHBOR PEOPLE
CHAPTER XIII
THE MOUNTAIN DIALECT
CHAPTER XIV
THE LAW OF THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER XV
THE BLOOD-FEUD
CHAPTER XVI
WHO ARE THE MOUNTAINEERS?
CHAPTER XVII
“WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES”
THE END
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Horace Kephart
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Our stores, as I have said, were small, yet many of their shelves were empty. Oftentimes there was no flour to be had, no meat, cereals, canned goods, coffee, sugar, or oil. It excited no comment at all when Old Pete would lean across his bare counter and lament that “Thar’s lots o’ folks a-hurtin’ around hyur for lard, and I ain’t got none.”
I have seen the time when our neighborhood could get no salt nor tobacco without making a twenty-four-mile trip over the mountain and back, in the dead of winter. This was due, partly, to the state of the roads, and to the fact that there would be no wagon available for weeks at a time. Wagoning, by the way, was no sinecure. Often it meant to chop a fallen tree out of the road, and then, with handspikes, “man-power the log outen the way.” Sometimes an axle would break (far upon the mountain, of course); then a tree must be felled, and a new axle made on the spot from the green wood, with no tools but axe and jackknife.
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