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Jean Pichon Thomas. Blue Ridge Country
Blue Ridge Country
Table of Contents
1. The Country and the People
The Land
The People
Blazing the Trail
The Mountaineer
2. Land Of Feuds And Stills
Hatfields and Mccoys
Peacemaker
Taking Sides
Martin-Tolliver Troubles
Family Honor
3. Products of the Soil
Timber
Woman’s Work
4. Tradition
Philomel Whiffet’s Singing School
Riddles and Fortunes
The Infare Wedding
5. Religious Customs
Funeralizing
Old Christmas
Foot-washing
New Light
6. Superstition
Big Sandy River
Water Witch
Marrying on Horseback
Death Crown
A White Feather
7. LEGEND
Crockett’s Hollow
The Silver Tomahawk
Black Cat
The Deer Woman and the Fawn
Ghost of Devil Anse
The Winking Corpse
The House with the Green Gables
8. Singing on the Mountain Side
Of Land and River
Feud
Legend
Tragedy
Patriot
9. RECLAIMING THE WILDERNESS
Vanishing Feudist
Silver Moon Tavern
Blooming Stills
Learning
Mountain Men
Coal
Public Works
Back to the Farm
Valley of Parks
When Singing Comes in, Fighting Goes Out
Vanishing Trail
INDEX
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Jean Thomas
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Though his neighbors may have considered him a shiftless fellow concerned only with hunting and exploring, a fellow who was ever moving from pillar to post, his very first visit to Watauga was not without significance.
It was the way of the wilderness that settlers followed the first hunters, and Boone with his companions had been in Watauga first in 1760. Eight years afterward a few families had followed the hunters’ trail for good reason.
