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Title: Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia

Author: Carrie Hunter Willis
Etta Belle Walker

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Language: English

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LEGENDS

of the

SKYLINE DRIVE

and the

Great Valley of Virginia

BY
CARRIE HUNTER WILLIS
AND
ETTA BELLE WALKER

RICHMOND, VA.:

THE DIETZ PRESS, _Publishers_

1940

COPYRIGHT, 1940

BY

CARRIE HUNTER WILLIS

AND

ETTA BELLE WALKER

_Printed in the United States of America_

Foreword

Tucked away among the hills and valleys in and near the Shenandoah
National Park and the Great Valley of Virginia are stories of the
beginnings of the white man's life beyond the comparative ease of early
Tidewater Virginia. These stories are true ones and they depict
something of the courage and hardihood of the early Virginia pioneer.
Perhaps in reading of their lives we may catch something of the majesty
and charm of their surroundings which were reflected to a marked degree
in their way of living. Surely they must often have said, "I will look
unto the hills from whence cometh my strength" or how else may we
account for the developments which came as the result of their constant
struggle for survival?

Stories of colonial Virginia on the eastern seaboard are numerous and
usually exciting but they are quite different from the tales beyond the
Piedmont. A combination of them may enable us to know Virginia as a
whole in a more appreciative way.

Long before the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe ever set