Our Southern Highlanders :: ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Big Tom Wilson, the bear hunter	Frontispiece
	facing page
Map of Appalachia	8
A family of pioneers in the twentieth century	16
“The very cliffs are sheathed with trees and shrubs”	24
At the Post-Office	32
The author in camp in the Big Smokies	40
“Bob”	48
“There are few jutting crags”	56
The bears’ home—laurel and rhododendron	64
The old copper mine	72
“What soldiers these fellows would make under leadership of some backwoods Napoleon”	80
“By and by up they came, carrying the bear on the trimmed sapling”	88
Skinning a frozen bear	96
“... Powerful steep and laurely....”	104
Mountain still-house hidden in the laurel	112
Moonshine still, side view	120
Moonshine still in full operation	128
Corn mill and blacksmith forge	136
A tub-mill	152
Cabin on the Little Fork of Sugar Fork of Hazel Creek in which the author lived alone for three years	160
A mountain home	176
Many of the homes have but one window	192
The schoolhouse	208
“At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look”	216
The misty veil of falling water	232
An average mountain cabin	240
A bee-gum	248
Let the women do the work	264
“Till the sky-line blends with the sky itself”	288
Whitewater Falls	312
The road follows the creek—there may be a dozen fords in a mile	320
“Dense forest and luxuriant undergrowth”	336

APPALACHIA

The wavy black line shows the outer boundaries of Southern Appalachian Region.
The shaded portion shows the chief areas covered by high mountains, 3,000 to 6,700 feet above sea-level.

OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS

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