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Kephart the Hunter

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  • V^fcW&rir i<m *KEPHART THE HUNTER Compares Southern Mountains to Scotland. "Truth Stranger than Fiction." "When the Sleeper Wakes." Quotations from a Thrilling Book. The Southern highlands are a mysterious realm. When I prepared, eight years ago, for my first sojourn in the Great Smoky Mountains, which form the master chain of the Appalachian system, I could find in no library no guide to that region. The most diligent research failed to discover so much as a magazine article, written within this generation, that described the land and its people. Nay, there was not even a novel or a story that showed intimate local knowledge. Had I been going to Teneriffe or Timbuctu, the libraries would have furnished information a-plenty; but about this housetop of eastern America they were strangely silent; it was terra incognita. On the map I could see that the Southern Appalachians cover an area much larger than New England, and they are nearer the center of our population than any other mountains that deserve the name. Why, then, so little known? We are wont to think of the South as a low country with sultry climate; yet its mountain chains stretch uninterruptedly southward from Virginia to Alabama, 650 miles in an air line. They spread over parts of eight contiguous States, and cover an area somewhat larger than England and Scotland, or about the same as that of the Alps. In short, the
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