A family party of young people under the chaperonage of Aunt Markham sets out by carriage and on horseback through the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Fording rivers, climbing peaks and sparring in conversation, Sylvia, Charley, Eric, Rupert and the narrator find romance among the waterfalls and summits.
The 1876 novel that gave Asheville’s mountains their famous nickname, a pleasant blend of travel and courtship. Download the free EPUB.