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Title: Our Southern Highlanders

Author: Horace Kephart

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31709]

Language: English

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OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS

[Illustration: Photo by U. S. Forest Service

Big Tom Wilson, the bear hunter, who discovered the body of Prof. Elisha
Mitchell where he perished near the summit of the Peak that afterward
was named in his honor]

OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS

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

CHAPTER PAGE

I. "SOMETHING HIDDEN; GO AND FIND IT" 11

II. "THE BACK OF BEYOND" 28

III. THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 50

IV. A BEAR HUNT IN THE SMOKIES 75

V. MOONSHINE LAND 110

VI. WAYS THAT ARE DARK 126

VII. A LEAF FROM THE PAST 145

VIII. "BLOCKADERS" AND "THE REVENUE" 167

IX. THE OUTLANDER AND THE NATIVE 191

X. THE PEOPLE OF THE HILLS 212

XI. THE LAND OF DO WITHOUT 234

XII. HOME FOLKS AND NEIGHBOR PEOPLE 256

XIII. THE MOUNTAIN DIALECT 276

XIV. THE LAW OF THE WILDERNESS 305

XV. THE BLOOD-FEUD 327

XVI. WHO ARE THE MOUNTAINEERS? 354

XVII. "WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES" 378