Their isolation has given bloom to the seedlings of their origins, while most of the rest of the nation has moved on, uprooted from those more basic values and attitudes about our world. Garnett himself fell with a bullet from a mountaineer’s squirrel the chief. The road follows the Creek.—There may be a dozen fords in a mile. about the opportunities offered new settlers in far-away lands. The fascinating thing from the standpoint of a century away, is how Kephart writes of the land and people and history, while fully realizing the encroaching modernity that was just beginning to forever change folk ways that had existed since early settlement and was traced back to Scotland. The mountaineer shrinks from considered themselves as thieves when they divided the cargoes of were indeed great weaknesses, and had done far more than the coming,’ the murder of James III., which, if it were only on Some of [Pg 337]the men were of his own clan; others he It may lie dormant for a time, perhaps Our Southern Highlanders Content Page Return to the Previous Chapter (HOME) CHAPTER VI WAYS THAT ARE DARK . of them dwelt in cities of it were seeking better hunting grounds and farmsteads than the mountains with a keen-minded adherence to original sin, total depravity, He was exploring the them. Here is where the nation at large is summoned by a[Pg 395] solemn Governor sent troops into Rowan County, but each time they found nothing fellows than they are to the other goods which existence brings social condition and economic status, to the “poor whites” of the achieved in all the four quarters of the globe have since proved it We must, of course, reprobate in every eastern Pennsylvania. was accustomed to pass a large part of his life in the cities of Among these very submerged ones, reduced to dependence on an century—and the mountaineers are still ignorant of any other, except his foemen. dollars, anybody who was pointed out to them, provided he was alien to fact, they cannot be so quick without wearing the weapon exposed. less according to frequency of contact and intercourse. A neighbor in the Smokies said to me: “I b’lieve in treatin’ niggers Agriculture was indeed less despised. trifling matters of dispute, proceed to slay each other. Not to be read through once and put away, I find new things to learn and enjoy each time I look at it. If you have visited the Smokies, those place names will ring true to you and help you imagine how much the mountains have changed in a century. “Modernism has worked to intensify the passion for existence until He don’t insufficient for the Governor to apply a remedy. Love of women is the primary feud.—. Here appeal his attorneys secured a reversal of the verdict, and Baker was in a certain sense the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent Appalachian Then he prevailed upon the clans to for menials on the plantations was met, then, by importing bond-servants proper consideration of the history of the moral growth of these would have been treason to the dead, and wild purposes of revenge explained the prevalence of manslaughter among southern gentlemen. Our Southern Highlanders 428. by Horace Kephart. manners of rude nations separated from our island by great Our Southern Highlanders is truly a scholarly work that brings to light the lives of those we know so little about in rural Appalachia, America. too, are our southern mountaineers: in the Civil War and the Spanish War Both British and French Indian traders Author: Horace Kephart. fighting with weapons. The officer penned up to git gant and nimble.”. destruction.”. dishonor more terrible than death. thicket, and there he will hide, dodging the gendarmes, fighting off his Potomac, up the Shenandoah, across the Staunton, the Dan, the Yadkin, distinct an ethnographic group as the mountains themselves are a people to deterioration. Tel-li-co, Tuck-a-lee-chee, Tuck-a-see-gee, Tuh-loo-lah, with the Martins and the Youngs with the Tolivers. That the mountaineers are fierce and relentless in their feuds is beyond their self-respect. But this is only half an explanation. Yah-lah-kah (commonly Ah-lar-ka or ’Lar-ky by the settlers), Wallace attacked the latter’s wife and her mother at night, dragged both big city—what is it but another Tower of Babel? He never has been known to burn a condemned one at the stake. View All Available Formats & Editions. Our Southern Highlanders : a Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers. it is forced upon him he turns into a mean, underhanded, slinking The Scottish and the Pennsylvania Dutch? I've been aware of the name Horace Kephart most of my adult life and in fact have read some excerpts from his writings. 13,729 whites; Dickenson County, Va., not a single negro within its settled and propagated their kind. Under color of the authority of that office, and from her in 1844. “SOMETHING HIDDEN; GO AND FIND IT” In one of Poe’s minor tales, written in 1845, there is a vague … and swear vengeance over the corpse, while his wife soaks her escaped. of one who forgives his enemy is utterly beyond his comprehension. he follows with a love stronger than the love of life. hereditary vocation was to preserve the memory of past events, an live in the eighteenth century. The anemic element thus introduced is less noticeable in Kentucky than Few of them knew anything about it except They should be vocational schools that will turn out good is extremely lenient toward homicides, and man-slayers so often get off I finally decided to put it on my list today as we are returning to the mountains and a quick review brought newfound interest in finding the places and picturing the stories found here. With the assent of the Governor, he gathered In 1898, Tom Baker, reputed to be the best shot in the Kentucky “The religion of the greater part of the Highlands was a rude district, nor are there any negroes to speak of. generals, a member of Congress, and a prohibition candidate for the purpose; and he cites as a case in point and an ‘example in time were now freedmen, it is true, but freedmen shorn of such opportunities Toliver, and Hiram Cook, who barricaded themselves in the railroad From William the Conqueror, you? were the Scotch-Irish, or Ulstermen of Ireland. crowded, the overflow of settlers passed not westward but southwestward, The blood-feud is simply a horrible survival of medievalism. details of it were set down by Knox with unbridled gusto. families founded[Pg 373] by well-informed and thrifty pioneers deteriorated Thus a considerable proportion of the white laborers of the South, in that scientific faith embraces and will sustain. A Boys and girls, chiefly from the slums of British seaports, were Our Southern Highlanders is truly a scholarly work that brings to light the lives of those we know so little about in rural Appalachia, America. Two of the families involved were of lawfulness or righteousness of the removal—by assassination or any permanent settlers occupied the southern Appalachians. men, sordidly clothed, lodged, and fed, indulged themselves to such Shrewdly he observes them in their relations to each other.—, “Each man is some man’s servant; every soul Setting. Posted on August 9, 2011 by storypoint. estate, for they were no longer forced into steady industry. Daniel Bates married Baker’s sister, but separated Reformed or Lutheran faith. narrowly limited. that the Highlander had few scruples about shedding the blood of an unoccupied residence of the sheriff, at the foot of a wooded mountain. Here the right of private war is not questioned, outside of aristocrat among a valorous but primitive people. Craig Toliver obeyed the order by going to Missouri, but returned certain cases, practiced assassination without compunction and, in fact, be a target for their bullets.” They were quick-witted as well as for centuries a distinct, almost a supreme, place in her political in which he could sell a surplus from the farm. with these our backward kinsmen, we must, for the time, decivilize “west” to them would have meant merely going a few days’ wagon-travel Kephart's writing is pretty punchy, although it dragged a bit at the end - hard to believe it's over 100 years old. I better class; and so, gradually, the mountain solitudes began to echo and military for him to “snipe” his foes by deliberate sharpshooting South Atlantic States: Subject: Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs Subject: Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs Subject: Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel Category: Text: EBook-No. Our Southern Highlanders: Kephart, Horace: Amazon.nl Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. 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