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OUR SOUTHERN
HIGHLANDERS
Photo by U. S. Forest
Service Big Tom Wilson, the bear hunter, BY HORACE KEPHART Author of “the Book of Camping and Woodcraft,” “Camp Cookery,” “Sporting Firearms,” Etc. Illustrated NEW YORK OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY MCMXVI Copyright, 1913, by OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY All rights reserved First Printing, November 1913 Second Printing, December 1913 Third Printing, January 1914 Fourth Printing, April 1914 CONTENTS I. “Something Hidden; Go and Find It” II. “The Back of Beyond” III. The Great Smoky Mountains IV. A Bear Hunt in the Smokies V. Moonshine Land VI. Ways That Are Dark VII. A Leaf from the Past VIII. “Blockaders” and “The Revenue” IX. The Outlander and the Native X. The People of the Hills XI. The Land of Do Without XII. Home Folks and Neighbor People XIII. The Mountain Dialect XIV. The Law of the Wilderness XV. The Blood-Feud XVI. Who Are the Mountaineers? XVII. “When the Sleeper Wakes” ILLUSTRATIONS Big Tom Wilson, the bear hunter Map of Appalachia A family of pioneers in the twentieth century “The very cliffs are sheathed with trees and shrubs” At the Post-Office The author in camp in the Big Smokies “Bob” “There are few jutting crags” The bears’ home — laurel and rhododendron The old copper mine “What soldiers these fellows would make under leadership of some backwoods Napoleon” “By and by up they came, carrying the bear on the trimmed sapling” Skinning a frozen bear “... Powerful steep and laurely....” Mountain still-house hidden in the laurel Moonshine still, side view Moonshine still in full operation Corn mill and blacksmith forge A tub-mill Cabin on the Little Fork of Sugar Fork of Hazel Creek in which the author lived alone for three years A mountain home Many of the homes have but one window The schoolhouse “At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look” The misty veil of falling water An average mountain cabin A bee-gum Let the women do the work “Till the sky-line blends with the sky itself” Whitewater Falls The road follows the creek — there may be a dozen fords in a mile “Dense forest and luxuriant undergrowth”  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. |
