Blue Ridge Country

by Jean Thomas

INDEX

Abingdon, Virginia, Declaration of, [31]-[32]
aborigines, [8]
adventurers, [15]
agriculture, [112]-[21], [283]-[89]
Alabama, [310]
Alamance, Battle of, [28]
Allegheny Mountains, [4]
American Folk Song Festival, [241]
American Folkways Association, [320]-[27]
animal life, [8]
Appalachia, [3]-[4], [5]
“Appalachia,” by Martha Creech, [210]
Apple Blossom Festival, [326]
Arcadian Folk Festival, [326]
Arcadian Guild, [326]
Arcadian Life, [327]
art exhibit, Kentucky, [250]
Arthur, Gabriel, expedition of, [17]-[18], [328]
Ash Lawn, [293]
“Ashland Tragedy, The,” by Peyton Buckner Byrne, [228]
Athiamiowee Trail, [9]
Atlanta Journal, [319]
Audubon Memorial State Park, [304]
Bailey, “Mad Anne,” [300]
ballads, [132], [152], [154], [159], [210]-[47], [249], [306];
and music, [43]-[44];
patriotic, [239]-[47]
Baltimore, Lord, [7], [12]
Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act, [286]
baptism, [60]-[61]
Baptists, [161]-[64], [268];
Regular Primitive, [161]-[64], [266]
Bardstown, Kentucky, [304]
Barker, George A., “Norris Dam,” [245];
“Skyline Drive,” [215]
Barton, Bruce, [268]
Barton, William E., [268]
beliefs, women’s, [120]-[21]
belting a tree, [113]
Berea College, [259], [307]
Berry Schools, [259], [307]-[10]
Big Bone Lick, [8]
Big Meeting, [57], [71]
Big Sandy Breaks, [301]
Big Sandy Improvement Association, [287]
Big Sandy News, [286], [317]
Big Sandy River, [4], [18], [19], [48], [116], [271], [304];
canalization, [287];
superstition, [168]
“Big Sandy River,” by D. Preston, [211]
birds, [6]-[7]
black cat, legend of, [189]-[94]
Blackberry Association, [288]
blessing the hounds, [305]
blindness, conjured, [180]-[85]
block houses, [22]
blue grass country, [303]
Blue Lick, [35]
Blue Ridge Mountains, [4]
Blue Ridge Parkway, [292]
boats, river, [272]
books, [16], [29], [34], [306]
Boone, Daniel, [19], [21], [22]-[39], [295], [302];
capture by Indians, and escape, [35]-[36];
death and grave, [39]
Boone, Mrs. Daniel, [24]-[25]
Boone’s Trace (Trail; Path), [33], [328]
Boonesborough, [35], [37], [39];
Battle of, [36]
Braddock, General, [23]
Breaks of the Big Sandy, [301]
Breathitt County, Kentucky, [73], [74], [75], [79], [88], [316]
Breckinridge, Alexander, [13], [261]
Breckinridge, Mrs. Mary, [261]
Bryan, William Jennings, [314]
Bryans, trek with Boone, [29]-[30]
Buckley, Noah, [169]-[72]
Buffum-Dillam feud, [88]-[91]
“Bundles for Britain,” by Jilson Setters, [242]
Burchett, Luke, “Jennie Wylie,” [219]
Burning Spring, [21], [26], [270]
Byrne, Peyton Buckner, “The Ashland Tragedy,” [228]
CCC, [288], [290]
CIO, [289]-[90]
Callahan, Ed, [75], [76], [77], [78], [80], [81], [82]
Campbell, John C., Folk School, [259], [307]
canalization, river, [287]
candy pulling, [143]-[44]
“Captain Jinks,” [147]
Carolina Playmakers, [305]-[06], [326]-[27]
Carter, Nannie Hamm, “It’s Great to Be an American,” [239]
Casey, Robert J., [322]
cat, black, legend of, [189]-[94]
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, [116], [271]-[72]
Caudill, Mrs. Lydia Messer, [250]
caverns, [186], [292], [300], [303], [313]
Cawood, Mrs. Herbert C., [283]
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, [306]
Charette, Missouri, [38]
Cherokees, [18], [32], [312], [328];
legend, [186]-[89]
Chicago Daily News, [322]
Child, lost, finding of, [170]-[72]
Christmas, Old and New, [158]-[61]
“Church in the Mountains,” by Jessie Stewart, [222]
church music, [268]
churches, new, [266]
cider press, old, [302]
Civil War, [47], [55], [72], [231], [310], [313], [316], [328]
Civilian Conservation Corps, [288], [290]
claims, land, [32]
climate, [7], [41]
Clinch Valley, [30]
coal mining, [250]-[51]
coal mining and miners, yesterday and today, [273]-[83]
“Coal Queen,” [283]
Cockrell, James, [74]-[81]
Cockrell-Hargis feud [73]-[88]
Collins, Floyd, [303];
ballads of, [235], [237]
Confederacy, White House, [310]
Congress of Industrial Organizations, [289]-[90]
conjuring, [180]-[85]
conservation, [288]
Constitution, first American, [29]
“convicts,” early, [16]
corn, grinding of, [112]-[13]
Cornstalk, Chief, [300]
corpse, winking, legend of, [203]-[05]
country dances, [148]
County Coal Operators’ Association, [283]
courting and song, [122]-[34]
cow, poisoned, [174]-[75]
Craft, Uncle Chunk, [72]-[73]
Crawford, Bruce, [294]-[99]
Creech, Martha,
“Appalachia,” [210];
“The Robin’s Red Breast,” [218];
“Woman’s Way,” [226]
Crisp, Adam, “Floyd Collins’ Fate,” [237]
crocheting, [120]-[22]
Crockett’s Hollow, legend of, [180]-[85]
crops, [112]-[21]
croup, curing, [171]
crown, death, [177]-[78]
Crystal Cave, [303]
Cudo’s Cave, [313]
“Cumberland,” origin of use of name, [20]
Cumberland Falls Park, [302]-[03]
Cumberland Gap and Mountain, [4], [20], [26], [30], [33], [46], [313], [328]-[29]
Cumberland Plateau, [4], [19]
Cumberland River, [3], [19]
customs, religious, [155]-[67]
Cuttawa country, [17], [19]
dancing, [145]-[50];
modern, [264]-[65];
wedding, [153]
Darrow, Clarence, [314]
Davis, Esther Eugenia, “West Virginia,” [214]
Davis, Jefferson, [310]
Dayton, Tennessee, [314]
death, omens of, [177]-[79]
death crown, [177]-[78]
“Death of Mary Fagin, The,” by Bob Salyers, [232]
Declaration of Abingdon, Virginia, [31]-[32]
Declaration of Independence, [34]
deer woman and fawn, legend of, [194]-[99]
Delisle, map, [19]
Dillam-Buffum feud, [88]-[91]
dipping snuff, [289]
divining rod, use of, [169]-[72]
Dixie Highway, [328]
doctor, mountain, ballad of, [223]
doctor, wizard, [190]
doctors, [173]-[74], [261]
Donegal, Lord, [12]
“Downfall of Paris, The,” by Coby Preston, [246]
drives. See highways
Dug Down Mountains, [105], [310]
Duke, Effie and Richard, ballad of, [234]
Duncannon, Governor, [328]
Duquesne, Captain, [36]
Eaton, Allen, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, [306]
education. See schools
electrification, rural, [263]-[64]
Elizabeth, Queen, [10], [43]
Evans, Lewis, map, [19]
evolution trial, [314]
excise laws, hatred of, [11], [43]
explorers, [16]
Fagin (Phagan), Mary, ballad of, [232]
fairs, state, [284]
families, large, [285]-[86]
family honor, [106]-[11]
Farm Security Administration, [284], [285], [286], [287]
farming, [112]-[21], [283]-[89]
“Fate of Effie and Richard Duke, The,” by Coby Preston, [234]
“Fate of Floyd Collins, The,” by Jilson Setters, [235]
fauna, [8]
feather, white, [178]-[79]
festivals, [325]-[26]
feuds, [45]-[111];
ballad on, [216];
vanishing feudist, [248]-[55].
See also family names
fighting and singing, [317]-[27]
Flanery, Mrs. Mary Elliott, [262]-[63]
flora, [5]-[6], [56]
“Floyd Collins’ Fate,” by Adam Crisp, [237]
Foley, Ben, [105]-[11]
Foley, Jorde, [105]-[11]
Foley Sods, [105]
folk festivals, [325]-[26]
folk lore, and conservation of, [320]-[27]
folk singing, [317]-[27]
Folk Song Festival, [241]
Folkways Association, American, [320]-[27]
foot-washing, [161]-[64], [266], [268]-[69]
Forest Festival, [325]
forestry, [288]
forests, national, [300], [301]
Fort Boone, [39]
fortunes and riddles, [135]-[50]
fox hunting, [305]
Frank, Leo M., ballad of, [232]
Franklin D. Roosevelt Highway, [309]
Frazier’s Knob, [302]
Frontier Nursing School, [261]
Fugate, Chester, [74]-[75]
funeralizing, [155]-[58], [267]
furs, [17], [19], [22]
Future Farmer Association, [283]
games, kissing, [144]
Gandy Sinks, [300]
Garrett, Aunt Sallie, [55]-[72]
Garrett, William Dyke, [55]-[72], [201], [202], [295]
Gentry, Pol, legend of, [189]-[94]
geography song, [128]-[29]
Georgia Warm Springs, [308]-[10]
Good, Professor E. S., [303]
“Good Shepherd of the Hills,” [55]-[72]
Great Kanawha River, [37]
Great Meadows, and Battle of, [23], [26]
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, [292], [312]-[13]
Green River, [19], [303]
Greene, General Nathanael, [19]
Greenup (Hangtown), Kentucky, [231]
Hamm family Eisteddfod, [239]
handicrafts, [306]-[07]
Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, by Allen Eaton, [306]
Hangtown (Greenup), Kentucky, [231]
Hargis, Beach, and murder of father, [79], [82]-[87]
Hargis, Elbert, [254]-[55]
Hargis, Judge James, and murder by son, [75]-[87]
Hargis-Cockrell feud, [73]-[88]
Harkins, Hugh, [269]-[70]
Harkins, Walter Scott, [269]-[71]
Harlan, Kentucky, [283]
Harlan Mining Institute, [283]
Hart, “Honest” John, [15]
Hart, Nathaniel, [32]
Hatfield, “Devil Anse,” [46]-[67], [250];
anecdote of, [62]-[63];
conversion and baptism of, [63]-[67];
ghost, [199]-[202];
statue of, [199]-[202];
stories told by, [49]-[54]
Hatfield, Jonse, [251]
Hatfield, Levisa Chafin, [46]-[72];
grave, [200]
Hatfield, Sid, [320]-[27]
Hatfield, Tennis, [251]
Hatfield burying ground, [199]-[202]
Hatfield-McCoy feud, [46]-[72]
Hatfields and McCoys, reunion, [254]-[55];
singing together, [317]-[27]
haunted house, legend of, [205]-[09]
Hedrick, Ray, and his “haunted house,” [205]-[09]
Henderson, Archibald, [305]
Henderson, Richard, [32], [37]
Hennepin, Louis, [18]
Henry, Patrick, [30]
highways, [291]-[93], [309], [315], [328], [329]
hill people, tribute to, [322]-[25]
“hill-billies,” [41]-[42]
Hindman Settlement School, [259]
Hodgenville, Kentucky, [304]
Holden, West Virginia, [282]-[83]
Holston River, [17], [33]
home industry, [117]-[19], [262], [306]-[07]
honor, family, [107]-[11]
horses, race, [303]-[04]
hospitality, [42]
hounds, blessing of the, [305]
house with the green gables, legend of, [205]-[09]
hunters and trappers, [17]
Huraken and Manuita, legend of, [186]-[89]
Hutchins, Thomas, map, [19], [228]
hymns, [66], [67], [70]-[71], [157]-[58], [162]-[63]
illiteracy, [40];
adult, school for, [260]
improvements, modern, [263]-[64]
Indents, [15]
independence, spirit of, [286]
Indians, [9]-[10],

[13], [15], [17], [18], [21]-[22], [28], [30], [33], [35];
legend, [186]-[89];
picture language, [9]-[10];
ways and customs, [9]-[10]
industry, home, [117]-[19], [262], [306]-[07]
infantile paralysis, [308]-[10]
infare wedding, [151]-[54]
Ireland, English invasion of, [10]-[11];
oppression of, [11]-[12]
“It’s Great to Be an American,” by Nannie Hamm Carter, [239]
Jack Knife Shop, [307]
James I of England, [10]
James, Frank, [49], [51]-[52]
Jefferson, Thomas, [293]
Jefferson National Forest, [301]
“Jennie Wylie,” by Luke Burchett, [219]
Jett, Curt, [74]-[81], [88]
John C. Campbell Folk School, [259], [307]
Jones-Wright feud, [73]
Kentucky, art exhibit, [250];
beginning of colonization, [32];
first white man in, [18];
past, commemoration of, [301]-[02]
Kentucky Progress Magazine, [259]
Kentucky River, [18], [19], [33], [35]
Kentucky Woodlands Wildlife Refuge, [305]
Kernersville, North Carolina, [306]
killings, [42], [43]
kissing games, [144]
Koch, “Prof.,” [305]-[06], [326]-[27]
labor, coal-mine, yesterday and today, [273]-[83]
land claims, [32]
Land of Saddle-Bags, The, by Dr. James Watt Raine, [16], [34]
land-purchase program, [286]
land reclamation, [284]
Lawton, John and Dessie, story of, [58]-[59]
learning. See schools
legends, [180]-[209], [218]
Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park, [302]
Levisa River. See Louisa River
Limestone Path, [9], [328]
Lincoln, Abraham, [304]
Little Theatre, [305]-[06]
Logan Wildcats, [47], [55]
logging and loggers, [5]-[6], [112]-[17], [270], [271]-[72], [288];
superstition, [168]
London bombing, ballad on, [241]
Louisa (Levisa) River, [21], [46]
“Love of Rosanna McCoy, The,” by Coby Preston, [216]
Loyal Land Company, [19]-[21], [49]
lumbering. See logging
lynchings, [74], [96]-[97]
Main Island Creek, [250]
Mammoth Cave and National Park, [288], [303]
Man o’ War, [303]
Manuita and Huraken, legend of, [186]-[89]
maps, and making of, [18]-[19], [328]
Marcum, James B., [74]-[81]
marriages. See Weddings
Martha Berry School, [259], [307]-[10]
Martin-Tolliver feud, [91]-[104], [203]-[05];
end of, [249]
May, A. J., [287]
Mays, John Caldwell Calhoun, [273]
Mayo (Shawnee) Trail, [301], [317], [322], [328]
McCoy, Harmon, [46]
McCoy-Hatfield feud, [46]-[72]
McCoys and Hatfields, reunion of, [254]-[55];
singing together, [317]-[27]
McGuffey, Dr. William Holmes, Readers, and shrine, [128], [289], [304]
McIntyre, O. O., [267]
McNeely, Reverend John, [70]
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Resolutions, [22], [34]
medicine, [261]
Meeting, Big, [57], [71]
meetings, religious, [155]
memorials, [267]
men, mountain, [269]-[72]
minerals and soil, [8]
mining, coal. See Coal
Model Star, The, [314]
Monongahela National Forest, [300]
Monroe, James, [293]
Monroe, Lucy, [318]
Monticello, Virginia, [293]
Moonlight School, [260]
“moonshine,” [43], [46]-[111], [248], [255]-[58];
origin of, [11]
Morehead, Kentucky, [249]-[50]
Morgan, General John Hunt, [72]
Morgan’s Riflemen, [34]
Mosley, Pleaz, Zooseum, [311]
mound builders, [8], [9]
Mountain Choir Festival, [326]
“Mountain Doctor,” by Jilson Setters, [223]
Mountain Laurel Festival, [325]
“Mountain Preacher,” by D. Preston, [221]
“Mountain Singers,” by Rachel Mack Wilson, [228]
“Mountain State” (West Virginia), [294]-[300]
“Mountain Woman,” by John W. Preble, Jr., [225]
mountaineers, the, [40]-[45]
Mountaineer’s Museum, [313]
mountains, [4]-[5]
murders, [42], [43]
museums, [311], [313]
music, and ballads, [43]-[44];
church, [268]
Neely, Matthew M., [295], [297]
neighborliness, [44]-[45]
Nelson’s Riflemen, [34]
New Light, [164]-[67]
“Norris Dam,” by George A. Barker, [245]
North Carolina, settlement, [21]-[22], [26]-[29]
Nursing School, Frontier, [261]
“Oh, Brother, Will You Meet Me!” [157]
oil, [270]-[71]
Old Buffalo Path, [9]
“Old Time Waterfront,” by Coby Preston, [213]
omens of death, [177]-[79]
oratory, [155]
paleontology, [8]
Paris, downfall of, ballad on, [246]
Park-to-Park Highway, [291]-[93]
parks, national and state, [288], [291], [292], [302]-[03], [304], [312]-[13]
parkways. See highways
Partlow, Deborah, story of, [60]-[61]
paths. See trails
patriotic ballads, [239]-[47]
Pearl, William, [302]
Pennsylvania, Proprietors of, [13]
people of the Blue Ridge, [10]
petroleum, [270]-[71]
Phagan (Fagin), Mary, ballad of, [232]
physicians, [261]
picture language, Indian, [9]-[10]
Piedmont Plateau, [4]
pig, bewitched, [189]-[94]
Pilot Knob, [26]
Pinnacle Mountain, [329]
pioneers, [10]
play-game songs, [145]-[48]
play-making, [305]-[06]
Playmakers’ Theatre, [306]
poems, mountain, [210]-[47]
Poets’ Fair, [326]
“Pop Goes the Weasel,” [148]-[50]
poteen, [11], [43]
Powell Valley, [30]
preachers, mountain, [267]-[69]
Preble, John E., Jr., “Mountain Woman,” [225]
Preston, Coby,
“Old Time Waterfront,” [213];
“The Downfall of Paris,” [246];
“The Fate of Effie and Richard Duke,” [234];
“The Love of Rosanna McCoy,” [216]
Preston, D.,
“Big Sandy River,” [211];
“Mountain Preacher,” [221]
Prestonsburg, Kentucky, [272]
Primitive Baptists, Regular, [161]-[64], [266]
products of the soil, [112]-[21]
progress, gains and losses by, [264]-[69]
Proprietors, Pennsylvania, [13]
public works, [274]-[83]
purchase, land, program for, [286]
quilts, [120]-[21];
poem on, [226]
quitrents, [13]-[14]
race horses, [303]-[04]
Raine, Dr. James Watt, The Land of Saddle-Bags, [16], [34]
rainfall, [7]
Rangers, [21]-[22], [27]
Rayburn, Otto Ernest, [327]
reclaiming the wilderness, [248]-[329]
reclamation, soil, [284]
“recorder, the,” [43]
redemptioners, [15]
Reffitt, Aunt Lindie, [135]-[43]
reforestation, [288]
Refuge, Kentucky Wildlife, [305]
Regular Primitive Baptists, [161]-[64], [266]
Regulators, [27], [28]
religious customs, [155]-[67]
rent system, [13]-[14]
reptiles, [7]
Revolutionary War, [34];
battle monument, [300];
commemorating, [290]
Rhododendron Festival, [326]
riddles and fortunes, [135]-[50]
river boats, [272]
river improvement, [287]
rivers, [3]-[4]
roads, improvement of, [286], [287]
Robertson, James, expedition of, [27]-[29]
“Robin’s Red Breast, The,” by Martha Creech, [218]
Robinson, Reverend Felix, [321]-[22]
Rockcastle River, [18]
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., [294]
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Highway, [309]
Roosevelt, Theodore, The Winning of the West, [29]
Rowan County, Kentucky, [92], [250]-[51], [260];
art exhibit, [250]
“Rowan County Troubles, The,” [249]
rug-making, [262]
rural electrification, [263]-[64]
Russell, Captain William, [29]
Russell Cave Road, [303]
“Sad London Town,” by Jilson Setters, [241]
Saint Valentine Day charm, [136]-[37]
salt licks, [8]
Saltpeter Cave, [186]
Salyers, Bob, “The Death of Mary Fagin,” [232]
Sand Cave, [303]
Schindler, Kurt, [319]
schools, [258]-[62].
See also names of schools and colleges
Scopes trial, [314]
Scotch-Irish, [10]-[14], [31]
Seneca Caverns, [300]
“Sergeant York,” by Jilson Setters, [243]
Setters, Jilson, and his ballads:
“Bundles for Britain,” [248];
“Mountain Doctor,” [223];
“Sad London Town,” [241];
“Sergeant York,” [243];
“The Fate of Floyd Collins,” [235]
settlers, [10]
Sewell, Willie, [73]
Shawnee (Mayo) Trail, [9], [301], [317], [322], [328]
Shawnees, [18], [19]
Shelby, Isaac, [302]
Shenandoah Community Workers, [306]
Shenandoah National Park, [291], [292]
Shenandoah Valley, [4], [13]
showboat, [116]-[17]
silver mine, lost, legend of, [186]-[89]
Silver Moon Tavern, [251]-[55]
silver tomahawk, legend of, [186]-[89]
singing and songs, courting, [133]-[34];
folk, [317]-[27];
Gatherings, [317]-[27];
geography song, [128]-[29];
mountain, [210]-[47];
mountain, poem on, [228];
play-game, [145]-[48];
school, Philomel Whiffet’s, [122]-[34];
societies, [266]
Skyline Caverns, [292]
Skyline Drive, [291]-[93], [329]
“Skyline Drive,” by George A. Barker, [215]
Smith, Kate, [260]
snakes, [7];
use in religious services, and bites, [164]-[67]
Snead, Grady, and his picnic, [321], [326], [327]
Snow Bird, legend of, [300]
snuff, dipping, [289]
soil, and minerals, [8];
products of, [112]-[21];
reclamation, [284]
Songs. See singing and songs
Sorghum Association, [287]
sorghum making, [118]-[19]
Spanish-American War, [316]
“speakings,” [155]
Speleological Society, [300]
Spring, Burning, [21], [26], [270]
Spurlock Station, [272]
Stamper, Fred, [317]
Stewart, Mrs. Cora Wilson, [260]
Stewart, Jessie, “Church in the Mountains,” [222]
stills. See “moonshine”
superstitions, [168]-[79], [180], [181]
surgery, primitive, [173]-[74]
Sweet Potato Festival, [326]
Swindle Cave, [186]
TVA, [311]-[12]
taffy pulling, [143]-[44]
Talbott Tavern, [304]
Taylor, Fiddling Bob, [290]
Taylor, Folsom, [321]
tenant purchase program, [286]
Tennessee, [311]-[17];
first permanent settlement, [26]
Tennessee River, [3], [4], [19]
Tennessee Valley Authority, [311]-[12]
Theatre, Little, [305]-[06]
Thomas, Reverend James M., [314]
timber. See logging
Tiptons, the, legend of, [180]-[85]
Tobacco Festival, [325]
Tolliver-Martin feud, [91]-[104], [203]-[05];
end of, [249]
tomahawk, silver, legend of, [186]-[89]
topography, [8]
tradition, [122]-[54]
trails, [9]-[10], [17], [19], [20], [26], [33], [39], [273], [328]
Traipsing Woman cabin, [322]-[23]
Transylvania, and Company, [32]-[35], [36]-[38]
trappers and hunters, [17]
trees, [5]-[6];
belting, [113].
See also lumber
turkey refuge, [304]-[05]
“Twa Sisters,” [152]
Unaka Mountains, [5]
Valley of Parks, [302]
Valley of Virginia, [17]
“Vauxhall Dance,” [50]
Virginia Apple Blossom Festival, [326]
Virginia reel, [148]-[50]
vote, women’s, [263]
WPA, [289]
Walker, Dr. Thomas, expeditions of, [19]-[21], [46], [49], [270], [301]
Warm Springs, Georgia, [308]-[10]
Warrior’s Path, [9], [17], [19], [20], [26], [33], [273]
Washington, George, [23], [34], [292], [296]
Watauga Association, [29], [290]
Watauga country, [25];
settlement of, [26]-[29]
Watauga River, [32]
water-witch,

[169]-[72]
watercourses, [7]
Weave Shop, [306]
weavers, Wilderness Road, [303]
weddings, infare, [151]-[54];
on horseback, unlucky, [172]-[77]
Wellford, Clate, [274]-[83]
wells, finding, [169]-[72]
West Virginia, [294]-[300]
“West Virginia,” by Esther Eugenia Davis, [214]
West Virginia Review, [295]
Whiffet, Philomel, singing school, [122]-[34]
whiskey, [11], [43].
See also “moonshine”
white feather, [178]-[79]
Whittlers, [307]
whittling, [259]
wilderness, reclaiming, [248]-[329]
Wilderness Road Weavers, [302]
Wilderness Trail, [33], [39], [328]
Wildlife Refuge, Kentucky, [305]
Williamsburg, Virginia, [294]
winking corpse, legend of, [203]-[05]
Winning of the West, The, by Theodore Roosevelt, [29]
witch, legend of, [189]-[94]
witchcraft, [180]-[85]
wizard doctor, [190]
woman, mountain, [262]-[64], [272];
poems on, [225], [226];
work, [117]-[21], [263]-[64]
woman suffrage, [262]
“Woman’s Way,” by Martha Creech, [226]
Wood, Colonel Abraham, [17]
Woodcrafters and Carvers, [307]
Works Progress Administration, [289]
works, public, [274]-[83]
World War, [316], [317]
Wright, Judge William, [260]
Wright-Jones feud, [73]
Wylie, Jennie, ballad of, [219]
Yadkin River, [4]
York, Sergeant Alvin C., [295], [314]-[16];
ballad of, [243];
school, [259], [315]
York Highway, [315]
Yorktown, Virginia, [294]
Young, Judge Will, [88]
younger generation, the, [264]-[66]
Zimmerman, Dr. C. C., [285]
Zooseum, Mosley’s, [311]