Kephart, a librarian who retreated to the North Carolina Smokies, describes the land and people he lived among: bear hunts in the high ridges, moonshiners and revenue officers, feuds, homesteads in ‘the land of do without’, speech, religion, schools and medicine. He writes with real affection and a frank eye for hardship, correcting the caricatures outsiders held of Appalachian mountaineers.
A classic portrait of Southern Appalachia, whose author helped lead the campaign for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Download the free EPUB.