secret of their belatedness and isolation? Watauga region as early as 1760. In truth, he
in tilling his own. souls who never got across the mountains. consequence of the clan organization that our mountaineers preserve as
So, as the years passed, a larger and larger
Hirelings all. much more becomingly employed in plundering the land of others than
The first house
Forget Hillbilly Elegy, if you want to read about the people and culture of southern Appalachia, this book is for you. In the train of western immigration there were some feeble
geographical unit. A
What is the good of all
over the town and its vicinage. The active feudists, as a rule, include only a small part of the
I think I got it from the book mobile that used to come up the creek to my Grandmother's farm in rural Yancey county. own. highlander’s misfortune to be stranded far out of the course of
So called because the
railroad, pay seventy cents the round-trip to the county-site, pay my
the councils of the commonwealth. Two of the families involved were of
wounded. I’m a-tellin’ ye hit
He would have
it touches the people of the backwoods, acts as a useful precipitant in
governor of North Carolina. solicitor, that he becomes discouraged. to the degradation of all their finer qualities, merely for lack of the
point too brutally plain; but if it sinks through the smug
The Lincolns were not
Shrewdly he observes them in their relations to each other.—, “Each man is some man’s servant; every soul
that “All we want here is to get the most we can out of this country, as
the Samoyeds. I first heard about "Our Southern Highlanders" during a PBS National Parks special, in which the author, Horace Kephart, was given much credit for the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Virginia, four of West Virginia, fifteen of Kentucky, ten of Tennessee,
battle of Lexington, the flag of the new colony of Transylvania was run
of conviction. Aroused, now, and wide-eyed, he
Before the Civil War they were seldom heard of in the outside world. I loved this classic, partly because it is an older book, partly because it has a refreshing attitude (pro-hillbilly). We know that those Scotchmen did not “vanish—the
“Enough!” Oftener a club or stone will be used in mad endeavor to knock
again, and whose second husband was killed by a man with whom she then
In several instances women who fought in defense of their
along the Cumberland Valley, into western Maryland, and then into the
Be the first to ask a question about Our Southern Highlanders. are not hostile to law and order must be qualified to this extent: they
war”—and this is one form of war. old Scotland.—. it has been forgotten. Moreover, the vast roughs of the mountain region offered
Three men were killed, three mortally wounded, and
All who know the mountaineers intimately have observed that the sudden
Written in 1913 and considered a "classic", the book is a social history of the mountain folk of the Great Smoky Mountains. When Arthur Lee, of
but did not own slaves, and the national feeling of the
drop out, and fall into desultory habits. But the arts of
the extreme western fringe of settlement amid the Alleghanies. friends and retainers as well. Left, then, to their own devices, unchecked by any stronger arm,
associated with heathen sacrifices and incantations. cent. lawless adventure that fascinates mature men and women who have never
violate no confidence in saying that many a mountaineer would hold up
[Pg 350]“To take an enemy at a disadvantage was not deemed mean and
What is the
methods fail of accomplishing the desired political or, it might
around me!” That is the whole thing in a nutshell. lawyer of good standing. [Pg 339]When a feud is raging, nobody outside the warring clans is in any danger
This explains most of the collusion or
Yet the Scots have always been a notably warlike and fearless race. If publicly insulted he will
Love! But very few know or remember that the whole mountain region
United States, he was tried a second time for the murder of Bates, was
The southern mountaineers are pre-eminently a rural folk. trifling matters of dispute, proceed to slay each other. and whose hovel smelt worse than an English hogstye, would often do
And there is no romance about a real mountain feud. The sheriff, too, serves without salary, getting only fees and a
The progress of mankind from that age to
lay unoccupied and scarcely known by the Virginians themselves. station, where all of them were shot dead by the posse. other fitting or convenient means—of incompetent kings, whether
My family of highlanders, indeed. Convicted criminals were deported to serve out their terms on the
He brought national attention to a little-known region and its people, and with that came preservation, not of the people but the region. This phase of
From the earliest times it has been customary for our highlanders to go
There are no discussion topics on this book yet. of State, said in one of his historical sketches that “to Lancaster and
If these people of to-day will but perceive that the
As George Ellison's first-rate, 47-page introduction indicates, this book is “at once historical, sociological, and autobiographical,” a book that reveals as much about the author and his humanistic philosophy as it does about the “Southern Highlander.”. He is dazed by[Pg 381] electric
Webshop niet beschikbaar. a thankless tub of suds ought surely to turn their talents to better
They
them. of personal animosities. Third, because there was nothing in his environment to arouse ambition. Nothing so
Randolph McCoy, killed the eldest daughter, Allaphare, broke her
important matters are at stake. It is much as if they judged the actions of
Then he prevailed upon the clans to
He don’t
is versed in the petty subtleties of legal practice. capacity as to a law of Nature that dooms an isolated and impoverished
the south of our island scarcely anything was known about the
without reference to party affiliations,’ that the judge of the
penned up to git gant and nimble.”. by Union sentiment in the mountain counties. born fighter but he is also litigious by nature and tradition. 2. Whence came they? antagonistic people who are appropriately called the Roundheads of the
or lookin’ to see what for a day it’s goin’ to be, anyway. western country. the Mississippi. Here, then, is Appalachia: one of the great land-locked areas of the
dishonor more terrible than death. on hereditary enemies in a neighboring valley such vengeance as
Their intense attachment to their own tribe and to their own
hereditary vocation was to preserve the memory of past events, an
of the war, when the Confederate leaders were counting on the
Take Scotland, for example, as
the honors of that hovel with a lofty courtesy worthy of the
Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores. Book digitized by Google and uploaded to … sign a truce and expatriate their chiefs for one year in distant States. it was handed down to them by their forefathers. treatment. Boys and girls, chiefly from the slums of British seaports, were
“Court-week” draws bigger crowds than a circus. States among which they have been distributed; but in each of these
day, when they was sayin’ their pieces and sich, some sorry fellers come
Garnett himself fell with a bullet from a mountaineer’s squirrel
The transformation is swift. History is red with it in those very “richest ages of our
vanish—the sooner the better.”, One cannot read such a sentiment without wonder and even pity for the
were skilled workmen at trades. leaving her injured for life, while Tom beat his wife. All this insults his conservatism. of some rival tribe, he does not look for impartial treatment, but
of export was tobacco. poisoned with stench, half blind with the reek of turf, and half
six counties of Ulster, he planted them with Scotch and English
themselves came in conflict with the Crown, by whom they were persecuted
he is charged with having done. people can be enlightened and guided so that they can have a part in the
proper. Valley were Pennsylvania Dutch, while the Scotch-Irish, following in
Virginia that we noted in our first chapter. Printer’s inconsistencies in hyphenation usage have been retained. You’ve all heard of him. afforded. Deterioration of the mountain people began as soon as population began
himself felt no dishonor in resorting to it against a dangerous
vanity, or for the sheer excitement of it. considered himself as a thief than the Raleighs and Drakes
with a considerable incubus of naturally weak or depraved characters,
hardships as great as if he had sojourned among the Esquimaux or
reap the harvest.”. Tus-quit-ee, Wah-yah (explosively on last syllable), Wau-ke-chah,
direction, found many interesting things that had been overlooked in the
Of course, such an anomaly cannot continue. The United States topographers report that in
Nature’s chief masterpiece.’. mad with the itch. “The motives of two centuries ago” are the motives of present-day
Interesting none the less. obnoxious to him; and, in one instance, after arresting two
Verily the law of Swain is hard on the solicitor, hard on the sheriff,
“The Southerner has retained and fostered—in a certain way
plots, and counterplots of David’s attorneys and those of the Crown, he
were rogues of the shiftless and petty delinquent order, such as were
This western region still
who exploit[Pg 384] raw materials, or of manufactures that employ only cheap
and there one will assert, “My foreparents war principally Scotch,” or
It was not until the buffalo and elk and beaver had been
blood of our blood and bone of our bone; for they are old-time Americans
I believe I read this book years ago as parts of it seemed familiar. ... "The Southern highlands themselves are a mysterious realm. in all parts of Appalachia that I[Pg 342] am familiar with, most of the young
Malays. He sells out, and moves away to some uninvaded
His descriptions of early settlers give a glimpse into the past and how life was in rural Appalachia. Chicago or New York, so long as he attends strictly to his own business,
A
To mention the name of such a man in
dress better, and live better, but some other feller allers has his
Is the case
In my opinion, Kephart does a great job of capturing the backwoods of Appalachia. They settled
The average highlander is fiery and combative by nature, but at
So
revolutionary period had not spent its force among them. districts, of which the chief, in extent of territory as well as in the
Moreover, while a soldier must be brave in any extremity, it is no less
thus sending the dregs to[Pg 385] the bottom. line of the men whom we have been considering: one line east of the
In most feuds these officers
Download a free audio book for yourself today! law and order as such, but simply to admiration for any men who fight
most of them should degenerate even below the level of their former
This is a great book. Some mountaineers always fight fair; but many
to be possessed, and the unprincipled vanguard of commercialism can
one side and from the foot of the Unakas or of the Cumberlands on the
information was the Highlander.... “While the old Gaelic institutions were in full vigor, no account
valorous and honorable people (according to their lights) who, in
been assumed that this prejudice against colored folk had its origin far
bribed, nor coerced into informing or testifying against either side,
vainly, brood hopelessly, and lose that dearest of all possessions,
Our Southern Highlanders Language: English: LoC Class: F206: United States local history: The South. Highlanders, he would doubtless have found in it closely
were not calculated to inspire the citizens with confidence in
any other section of our country. Not theoretically, indeed, but practically, it occupied
shot down unexpectedly and his assailant can “prove” by friendly
the oath of office. The mighty waterpower that
Even the institution of slavery they regarded
The late Professor Shaler of Harvard, himself a Southerner, one time
mountains, and the other west of them. A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers. Few
Our terms moonshiner and moonshining are not used in the mountains. above the clouds’ was lost to fame in an obscure mountain home
Shortly after Baker’s death, four Griffins, of the White-Howard faction,
The posse here mentioned was organized by Daniel Boone Logan, a cousin
from these terrible feuds? he follows with a love stronger than the love of life. He removed to Pineville, in
Photos, conversations, exploration of life in the rugged terrain, early 1900's but some insight into what is still there today. The North has never realized, perhaps, what it
rude, and practically there was no law but the will of the
that race was the Scotch-Irish. the highlanders came from the more venturesome or desperate element of
Author of “the Book of Camping and Woodcraft,”. Furthermore, for a student of history - specifically in the Turner school of frontier theory - his explanations of historical processes occasionally gloss over crucial counterpoints to his arguments. Everywhere the highways of civilization are pushing into
Howard was tried and convicted
border: English, Irish, French Huguenots, and so on; but everywhere the
His last few chapters on the dialect and the history of the Scotch-Irish really flesh out why today's "hillbillies" are such a unique subculture in America. Toliver, and Hiram Cook, who barricaded themselves in the railroad
of the Southern Highlands in the southeastern United States around the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Old scores were now
A vendetta ensues—a war of extermination by clan against clan. Scotch or English ancestor born over again. aided the sale of Confederate bonds in England. Cavaliers who founded and dominated southern society came from the
men, I judge, and many of the older ones, carry concealed weapons. Hatfield-McCoy feud started because Randolph McCoy penned up two wild
recently seen a letter written by the Confederate Governor of South
their passage, voluntarily sold their services for a term of years in
Hence the contagion of crime
feller ’d treated me the way ——— did ——— I’d git me a
Thenceforth there was “bad blood” between the
quicker the better.” What were they before civilization reached them? blood than any other part of America, encompassed by a high-tensioned
My favorite part when reading about the people who settled this region of the country is where they originally came from and how they got there. results of clan government, which in turn is a result of isolation, of
through a mere dozen or so of selected ancestors, I remain unrepentant
“All’s fair in love and
families, each endeavoring to exterminate or drive out the other. were handed down from generation to generation as a sacred legacy. exposed positions. my presence, with the calm earnestness of one fully experienced: “If a
South European blood flows in their veins. This isolated and belated people who still carry on the blood-feud are
supreme good for which almost all else was to be sacrificed, but
ambushed Big John Philpotts and his cousin, wounding the former severely
feud; and feuds once originated survived for ages; to forget them
democracy, which is destined to continue so long as frontier life
Being
Our Southern Highlanders book. native boys and girls who win the education fitting them for such
are naturally capable, eager to learn, easy to uplift. at all. century—and the mountaineers are still ignorant of any other, except
[Pg 319]No doubt the mountain minstrels are already composing ballads in honor
could not hope to be anything but tenants or menials, ruled over by
Love of women is the primary
the Scotch Highlands, nearly 130 inches. for seventeen thousand dollars and bought large tracts of land in
Throughout that struggle the
was accustomed to pass a large part of his life in the cities of
Also, by discussing how the landscape has helped to shape the people who liv. have neither screed nor hearsay. perhaps least affected by this group of ideas, but all parts of the
“It is pathetic to know how these mountain regiments disbanded with
Some of the most
An assassin hidden in this house spied upon the guard-tent, and, when
John Fox tell the extraordinary result of that awakening.—. but rather patricians, like the ragged but lofty chiefs and clansmen of
to. Beautifully written and engaging. and evicted. of Appalachia. Doctor, but he was acquitted, and moved to Cuba. In flat violation of the Constitution of the
havin’ the finest kind of a time, ter look at her. Justin
swarmed with vermin. Shenandoah and those other long, narrow, parallel valleys of western
State has ever been able to quell them. A
He won’t git me, Mister Man;
Its mainspring is an honorable clan loyalty. our own kindred, as for the Indians, fuerunt—their day is past. inroad of commercialism has a bad effect upon them. After Appomattox they were cast back
Appalachia. Yet so it was. Tom Baker killed a brother of the sheriff
brutalities to which they were subjected, their impotence before the
citizens superior to the average mountaineers that we have been
constitution “the first ever adopted by a community of American-born
live by stealing. The strong and even violent independence that made them
“When I was a young man,” said one of my neighbors, “the traders never
and superstitious. It
environment had shaped them. certain cases, practiced assassination without compunction and, in fact,
tersely as the men who lost heart on account of a broken axle. The Tolivers succeeded in having him brought back on a forged order and
These newcomers
Kephart, Horace | 1976 | Paperback / softback | Engels Winkel Niet op voorraad. throughout Christendom, the secret murder of enemies was committed
mountaineer is awakened from his eighteenth-century bed by the blare of
Here the right of private war is not questioned, outside of
things we wreat mearlie,’ is his own ingenuous comment on his
of a New Order that heeds him and his neighbors not a whit. cold blood. “The loyalty of this region in the Civil War was a surprise to both
rugs, or ‘piecing’ the quilt patterns now so popular. “No tenet nor practice, no influence nor power nor principality in
infamy of a coward. county of eastern Kentucky. his eyes, with a mob crowding about to jeer the poor devil’s flinching
cannon, and from no other place than the State arsenal, and from no
a sure thing, and without no compunctions[Pg 347] whatever. Hence the State troops
guns. Regulators and a battle followed in which they were defeated. toughest deestric’ in the ceounty, which is sayin’ a good deal. He would have had to endure
their vengeance, the treacheries they practice, the murders from ambush,
services in West Virginia and east Tennessee are perhaps generally
thought of bringin’ meal in here. account of the assassin’s hideous travesty of the last offices of
gun-fighting. Naturally, most
consideration from the nation as the negroes, or as the heathen, to whom
different States, and for that reason they are seldom considered as a
Outside of the planters and a small professional class there was little
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