Our Southern Highlanders

Horace Kephart (1862 - 1931)

Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural observations during his time living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. - Summary by Meredith Womac Cook.

Please note that due to the time period and setting, it contains some offensive language and overt racism.

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Something Hidden Go and Find It Meredith Womac Cook
00:21:32
Play 02 The Back of Beyond Meredith Womac Cook
00:26:08
Play 03 The Great Smoky Mountains Brize C
00:33:21
Play 04 A Bear Hunt in the Smokies Brize C
00:45:09
Play 05 Moonshine Land Brize C
00:19:44
Play 06 Ways That Are Dark Brize C
00:26:06
Play 07 A Leaf from the Past Brize C
00:29:08
Play 08 Blockaders and The Revenue Cbteddy
00:26:32
Play 09 The Outlander and the Native Brize C
00:28:50
Play 10 The People of the Hills Brize C
00:30:37
Play 11 The Land of Do Without Brize C
00:31:11
Play 12 Home Folks and Neighbor People Brize C
00:27:58
Play 13 The Mountain Dialect Brize C
00:45:16
Play 14 The Law of the Wilderness Brize C
00:30:43
Play 15 The Blood-Feud Brize C
00:39:03
Play 16 Who Are the Mountaineers? Brize C
00:32:40
Play 17 When the Sleeper Wakes Brize C
00:27:08