Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

The book provides one of the earliest realistic portrayals of life in the rural Appalachian Mountains and one of the first serious analyses of Appalachian culture. While modern historians and writers have criticized Our Southern Highlanders for focusing too much on sensationalistic aspects of mountain culture, the book was an important departure from the previous century's local color writings and their negative distortions of mountain people.

CONTENTS:
I.“Something Hidden; Go and Find It”
II.“The Back of Beyond”
III.The Great Smoky Mountains
IV.A Bear Hunt in the Smokies
V.Moonshine Land
VI.Ways That Are Dark
VII.A Leaf from the Past
VIII.“Blockaders” and “The Revenue”
IX.The Outlander and the Native
X.The People of the Hills
XI.The Land of Do Without
XII.Home Folks and Neighbor People
XIII.The Mountain Dialect
XIV.The Law of the Wilderness
XV.The Blood-Feud
XVI.Who Are the Mountaineers?
XVII.“When the Sleeper Wakes”