. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. E HILLS 26. The Toech-Bearer 297 27. A Chosen People 307 (7) IIXUSTRATIONS Page The Maker of the Home Frontispiece Battle of Kings Mountain 16 On Watch 31 Baker Mountain School and Church 48 Relief Map op Appalachia 64 Old and New 78 Crossing the Branch 93 Lincoln Memorial University 94 Chapel, Berea College 97 Students at Highland College 112 First Cabin, and Recitation Hall, Berry School .... 129 Oneida Institute 144 An Ancient Art 146
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. E HILLS 26. The Toech-Bearer 297 27. A Chosen People 307 (7) IIXUSTRATIONS Page The Maker of the Home Frontispiece Battle of Kings Mountain 16 On Watch 31 Baker Mountain School and Church 48 Relief Map op Appalachia 64 Old and New 78 Crossing the Branch 93 Lincoln Memorial University 94 Chapel, Berea College 97 Students at Highland College 112 First Cabin, and Recitation Hall, Berry School .... 129 Oneida Institute 144 An Ancient Art 146 On Madison Campus 160 At Fountain Head School 168 NiCKOJACK Cave 186 Shops, Eufola Academy 192 A New Industry 208 At Cowee Mountain School 216 Eager for Progress 226 Madison Rural Sanitarium 240 Primitive Motive Power 251 Going to Market 275 In the Sapphire Country 276 Self-Supporting Workers Convention 288 A Kentucky Homestead 294 A Family Reunion 304 (8) Htghtoris nni Htghfenri:ers To THE mountains, in time to come, we maylook for great men, thinkers as well as workers,leaders of religious and poetic thought, and states-men above all. Emma B. THE EXPLORERS THE Englishmen who set foot upon the shores of wil-derness Virginia in the seventeenth century foundthemselves shut up against the sea by a long range ofmountains in the west. Seeking a clear passage through,they might wander in vain far toward the northernconfines of Penns woods and deep into the southernrecesses of the Carolina grants. Everywhere the un-known country beyond, which they sought to explore,was shut from their view by the blue, hazy, sentinelline of those mountains. They called them the BlueRidge. The early settlers believed that these mountainslooked out upon the South Seas. The blue hazethat always surmounted them seemed proof that theocean with its mists lay just beyond, and they thoughtthey had only to find a convenient pass to enable themto embark upon a voyage to the Indies. It was to findsuch
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