| Barton,
W.E. A hero in homespun, a tale of the loyal South. New York:
Lamson, |
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Wolffe
and company, 1897. |
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| Barton,
W.E. Life in the hills of Kentucky. Oberlin, Ohio: E.J. Goodrich,
1890. |
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("Sets
forth the religious life of the mountain folk.") |
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| Carter,
M.N. North Carolina sketches. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1900. |
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(Short
stories) |
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| Craddock,
C.E. [Mary Noailles Murfree] The despot of Broomsedge Cove. Boston:
|
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Houghton, Mifflin
and Company, 1889. (Novel). |
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(“Miss
Murfree’s best example of character drawing among the mountain
people.") |
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| Craddock,
C.E. [Mary Noailles Murfree] In the clouds. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
and |
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Company,
1887. |
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(“Gives
the most perfect mountain atmosphere of any of her stories.") |
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| Craddock,
C.E. [Mary Noailles Murfree] In the Tennessee mountains. Boston:
|
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Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, 1884. (Short stories) |
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| Craddock,
C.E. [Mary Noailles Murfree] The prophet of the Great Smoky mountains.
|
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Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1885. (Novel) |
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| Craddock,
C.E. [Mary Noailles Murfree] The young mountaineers. Boston: Houghton,
|
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Mifflin,
1898. (Short stories) |
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| Dexter,
E.G. “The southern states.”
In History of education in the United States. |
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New
York: Macmillan, 1904. |
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| Fox,
John. Blue grass and rhododendron: out-doors in old Kentucky. New
York: |
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Scribner,
1901. |
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| Fox,
John. The little shepherd of Kingdom Come. New York: Scribner, 1903.
(Novel). |
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|
| Frost,
W.G. “Berea college.” In From servitude to service.
Boston: American Unitarian |
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Association,
1905. (Shows what can be done with mountain boys and girls in the
|
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field
of industrial and higher education.) |
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|
| Gielow,
Martha S. Old Andy the moonshiner. Washington, D.C.: W.F. Roberts,
1909. |
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(Short
story). (Tells of the sacrifices made by Old Andy and his wife to
send their |
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little
grandchild to an industrial school for mountain children.) |
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|
| Haney,
W.H. The mountain people of Kentucky. Cincinnati: Roessler Bros.,
1906 |
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(Written
by the son of a Kentucky mountaineer, who worked his way through
|
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college
and taught school within sight of his father’s abandoned still.
The most |
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cheering
part of the book is that on education. The desire for education
of the part |
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of
the mountain boy and girl is almost insatiable, and the educated
mountaineer |
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often
returns to his native home to help his people.) |
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| Johnson,
Clifton. Highways and byways of the South. New York: Macmillan,
1904. |
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(Pictures
of rustic life and nature.) |
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|
| Malone,
J.S. Sons of vengeance. New York: F.H. Revell, 1903. |
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(A
tale of the Cumberland highlanders.) |
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|
| Wilson,
S.T. The southern mountaineers. New York: Presbyterian Home Missions,
1906. |
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1906.
(One of the most interesting and helpful books to be found on this
subject.) |
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Read
an excerpt from the book. |
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| Historical
phases on the subject are to be found in the following books: |
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| Bruce,
H.A. Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road. New York: Macmillan,
1910. |
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| Fiske,
John. Old Virginia and her neighbors. New York: Houghton Mifflin
and |
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Company,
1897. |
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| Roosevelt,
Theodore. The winning of the West. New York: G.P. Putnam’s,
1904. |
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|
| Temple,
O.P. The Covenanter, the Cavalier and the Puritan. Cincinnati: Robert
|
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Clarke,
1897. Read an excerpt from the book. |
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| Articles
in Periodicals |
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| Cady,
J.C. “In the mountains.” Outlook 69 (1901): 320-325. |
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(Describes
conditions among the Kentucky mountaineers and tells of the work
of |
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Berea
college.) |
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|
| Curry,
J.L.M. “Education in the southern states.” Review of
reviews 20 (1899): 185-187. |
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|
| Dawley,
T.R. “Our southern mountaineers.”
World’s work 19 (1910): 1270-1414. |
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(An
agent of the U.S. government gives the results of an investigation
of living |
| |
conditions
among 5000 mountain people of Tennessee, North Carolina and South |
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Carolina.
He favors moving the people away to better environments instead
of |
| |
trying
to do missionary work among them.) |
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|
| Elliott,
A.S. “The Kentucky mountaineer.” Bibliotheca sacra 63
(1906): 487-509. |
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|
| Erskine,
R. “The craftsmanship of the mountaineers of the Blue Ridge.”
Craftsman 13 |
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(1907):
158-167. (Spinning, weaving, basket-making, pottery-making, etc.
as |
| |
practiced
among the mountain folk.) |
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|
| Fox,
John. “The southern mountaineer.” Scribners Monthly
29 (1901): 387-389; 556-570. |
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(Interesting
anecdotes and pictures, showing the more intimate side of the lives
of |
| |
the
mountain people.) |
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|
| Fox,
John. “On horseback to Kingdom Come.” Scribner's Monthly
48 (1910): 175-186. |
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|
| Fox,
John. “On the road to Hell-fer-Sartain.” Scribner's
Monthly 48 (1910): 350-361. |
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|
| Fox,
John. “On the trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Scribner's
Monthly 48 (1910): 417-429. |
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(Descriptions
of pilgrimages to the scenes of his stories.) |
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|
| Frost,
W.G. “Our contemporary ancestors
in the southern mountains.” Atlantic 83 |
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(1899):
311-319. |
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Text
courtesy of Cornell University's Making
of America collection. |
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|
| Frost,
W.G. “The southern mountaineer, our kindred of the Boone and
Lincoln type.” |
| |
Review
of Reviews 21 (1900): 303-311. (The President of Berea college praises
the |
| |
sturdy
character of the people, tells of their needs, and of the work of
his college.) |
| |
|
| Hamilton,
S.A. “The new race question in the South.” Arena 27
(1902): 352-358. |
| |
(The
“Crackers” of the far South—the new race which
will dominate the political |
| |
and
industrial economics of the South.) |
| |
|
| Haywood,
A.G. “The South and the school
problem.” Harper’s Magazine 79 (1889): 225-231.
|
| |
Text
courtesy of Cornell University's Making
of America collection. |
| |
|
| “Life
in the Kentucky mountains, by a Mountaineer.” Independent
65 (1908): 72-82. |
| |
(Quaint
autobiography in homely language.) |
| |
|
| Neve,
F.W. “Virginia mountain folk.” Outlook 93 (1909): 825-829. |
| |
(The
Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge tells how his first mission house and
home for |
| |
workers
was built. He says that industrial schools train people to make
the most |
| |
and
best of what they have, to build better homes, and deal with conditions
|
| |
surrounding
them in a more intelligent and successful manner.) |
| |
|
| Norman,
H.D. “The English of the mountaineers.” Atlantic 105
(1910): 276-278. |
| |
(Comparison
of the mountain dialects with the English of Shakespeare’s
time.) |
| |
|
| Ralph,
Julian. “Our Appalachian Americans.” Harper’s
Magazine 107 (1903): 32-41. |
| |
(Good
description with humorous anecdotes, of home life in the Kentucky
|
| |
mountains.) |
| |
|
| Revere,
C.T. “Beyond the Gap, the breeding
ground of feuds.” Outing 49 (1907): 609- |
| |
621.
(Experiences of a former member of the U.S. Geological Surveys in
the |
| |
Cumberland
Gap region of Kentucky, the stronghold of moonshiners and the |
| |
breeding
ground of feuds.) |
| |
|
| Waldo,
Frank. “Among the southern Appalachians.” New England
Magazine 24 (1901): 231-247. |
| |
(Describes
the region about Asheville, North Carolina, the scenes of many of
|
| |
Miss
Murfree’s stories. The author says she idealized the ordinary
life of |
| |
mountaineers,
but commends her descriptions and portrayals of character.) |
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