Читать книгу Our Southern Highlanders - Horace Kephart - Страница 3
ILLUSTRATIONS
ОглавлениеBig Tom Wilson, the bear hunter | Frontispiece |
facing page | |
Map of Appalachia | 8 |
A family of pioneers in the twentieth century | 16 |
“The very cliffs are sheathed with trees and shrubs” | 24 |
At the Post-Office | 32 |
The author in camp in the Big Smokies | 40 |
“Bob” | 48 |
“There are few jutting crags” | 56 |
The bears’ home—laurel and rhododendron | 64 |
The old copper mine | 72 |
“What soldiers these fellows would make under leadership of some backwoods Napoleon” | 80 |
“By and by up they came, carrying the bear on the trimmed sapling” | 88 |
Skinning a frozen bear | 96 |
“… Powerful steep and laurely. …” | 104 |
Mountain still-house hidden in the laurel | 112 |
Moonshine still, side view | 120 |
Moonshine still in full operation | 128 |
Corn mill and blacksmith forge | 136 |
A tub-mill | 152 |
Cabin on the Little Fork of Sugar Fork of Hazel Creek in which the author lived alone for three years | 160 |
A mountain home | 176 |
Many of the homes have but one window | 192 |
The schoolhouse | 208 |
“At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look” | 216 |
The misty veil of falling water | 232 |
An average mountain cabin | 240 |
A bee-gum | 248 |
Let the women do the work | 264 |
“Till the sky-line blends with the sky itself” | 288 |
Whitewater Falls | 312 |
The road follows the creek—there may be a dozen fords in a mile | 320 |
“Dense forest and luxuriant undergrowth” | 336 |
APPALACHIA
The wavy black line shows the outer boundaries of Southern Appalachian Region.
The shaded portion shows the chief areas covered by high mountains, 3,000 to 6,700 feet above sea-level.