. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . re no roads, noschools. News of the outside world, when it reached them, was history of thepast to all other people. They lived apart and in them-selves—in the world but notof it. Lineal descendants ofmen who fought with Wash-ington to create a nationwere here, hemmed in bythe Cumberlands and for-gotten by the people forwhom their forefathers died. Following in the wake ofDaniel Boone, the ancestorsof these people came to wintheir homesteads in the darkand bloody ground. Incoonskin cap and fringedbuckskin, with their flint-lock rifles they came andfoug
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . re no roads, noschools. News of the outside world, when it reached them, was history of thepast to all other people. They lived apart and in them-selves—in the world but notof it. Lineal descendants ofmen who fought with Wash-ington to create a nationwere here, hemmed in bythe Cumberlands and for-gotten by the people forwhom their forefathers died. Following in the wake ofDaniel Boone, the ancestorsof these people came to wintheir homesteads in the darkand bloody ground. Incoonskin cap and fringedbuckskin, with their flint-lock rifles they came andfought the Indian and thewild beast and the elements for a land in which to came into the mountains and the mountains closedaround them. The years slipped by and the great worldof progress rolled ahead. For them there was no came and the arbutus bloomed delicately beneaththe last thin snows. Indian Summers lingered with theglory of the hills, then slipped away through rustling fallen CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANYTIPPLE. OXEN HAULING. THE WELL DRILL BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 3 leaves. The world forgot these mountain people untilthree-quarters of a century slipped by and Lincoln sent acall for volunteers. Then one hundred thousand of themmarched from their wilderness to fight for one flag. Astheir fathers fought that this country might exist, so, whenword of danger came to them up the waterways and downthe wind and over the grapevine telegraph, theymarched forth to fight that this country might endure. When the war was over the old trail led them back tothe mountains, back to their silent places, and again thesilence closed around them. Here they have remained,alone, illiterate and untaught, but very real great-grandfather who saw the surrender at York-town lives again in the person of his great-grandson, forthis great-grandson lives only in the past. His ways areprimitive, his speech as well. His habitation is the oldlog cabin, windowl
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