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Horace Kephart to Albert Britt, August 26, 1912, page 1

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  • Bryson City, N. C. August SO, 1912, Mr. Albert Britt, Editor* . Outing Magazine, New York. Bear- Mr. Britt: les: the Chapter 1.. that I sent you is to open the magazine series, just as it stands. In the book it is to bo followed "by other chapters omitted in the magazine; but there will be no loss of sequence to the 3P9f3giig8li$$ readers. I am glad that you like what you have seen of the stuff. This much I way say, perhaps, with due modesty: that 1 know of no other writer who has lived so long and so intimately with the real mountaineers as I have, or who has been admitted so deeply into their confidence. They are an extremely suspicious and . secretive people, who, from feral instinct, hide from outsiders their real character, and are as cunning as any wild things in covering their tracks. The hospitality with which they admit a stranger is perfectly true and perfectly charming; but their slyness and vindictiveness are equally true and anything else than charming. )fS^hen first I went among them, there was a bee in my stetson. We had plenty of stories and descriptions of the Kentucky and Tennessee foethillers, but none of the Carolinians of the bigh Unakas, Virgin groundJ And I had no doubt but that a six- months ' tour would equip me to deal with all aspects of their lives and character. My first impressions reassured me. The mountaineers seeded a primitive, picturesque people, open minded, straightforward, easily understood, ilinight's lodging in a one-
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