Abingdon, Virginia, Declaration of,31-32aborigines,8adventurers,15agriculture,112-21,283-89Alabama,310Alamance, Battle of,28Allegheny Mountains,4American Folk Song Festival,241American Folkways Association,320-27animal life,8Appalachia,3-4,5“Appalachia,” by Martha Creech,210Apple Blossom Festival,326Arcadian Folk Festival,326Arcadian Guild,326Arcadian Life,327art exhibit, Kentucky,250Arthur, Gabriel, expedition of,17-18,328Ash Lawn,293“Ashland Tragedy, The,” by Peyton Buckner Byrne,228Athiamiowee Trail,9Atlanta Journal,319Audubon Memorial State Park,304Bailey, “Mad Anne,”300ballads,132,152,154,159,210-47,249,306;and music,43-44;patriotic,239-47Baltimore, Lord,7,12Bankhead-Jones Tenant Purchase Act,286baptism,60-61Baptists,161-64,268;Regular Primitive,161-64,266Bardstown, Kentucky,304Barker, George A., “Norris Dam,”245;“Skyline Drive,”215Barton, Bruce,268Barton, William E.,268beliefs, women’s,120-21belting a tree,113Berea College,259,307Berry Schools,259,307-10Big Bone Lick,8Big Meeting,57,71Big Sandy Breaks,301Big Sandy Improvement Association,287Big Sandy News,286,317Big Sandy River,4,18,19,48,116,271,304;canalization,287;superstition,168“Big Sandy River,” by D. Preston,211birds,6-7black cat, legend of,189-94Blackberry Association,288blessing the hounds,305blindness, conjured,180-85block houses,22blue grass country,303Blue Lick,35Blue Ridge Mountains,4Blue Ridge Parkway,292boats, river,272books,16,29,34,306Boone, Daniel,19,21,22-39,295,302;capture by Indians, and escape,35-36;death and grave,39Boone, Mrs. Daniel,24-25Boone’s Trace (Trail; Path),33,328Boonesborough,35,37,39;Battle of,36Braddock, General,23Breaks of the Big Sandy,301Breathitt County, Kentucky,73,74,75,79,88,316Breckinridge, Alexander,13,261Breckinridge, Mrs. Mary,261Bryan, William Jennings,314Bryans, trek with Boone,29-30Buckley, Noah,169-72Buffum-Dillam feud,88-91“Bundles for Britain,” by Jilson Setters,242Burchett, Luke, “Jennie Wylie,”219Burning Spring,21,26,270Byrne, Peyton Buckner, “The Ashland Tragedy,”228CCC,288,290CIO,289-90Callahan, Ed,75,76,77,78,80,81,82Campbell, John C., Folk School,259,307canalization, river,287candy pulling,143-44“Captain Jinks,”147Carolina Playmakers,305-06,326-27Carter, Nannie Hamm, “It’s Great to Be an American,”239Casey, Robert J.,322cat, black, legend of,189-94Catlettsburg, Kentucky,116,271-72Caudill, Mrs. Lydia Messer,250caverns,186,292,300,303,313Cawood, Mrs. Herbert C.,283Chapel Hill, North Carolina,306Charette, Missouri,38Cherokees,18,32,312,328;legend,186-89Chicago Daily News,322Child, lost, finding of,170-72Christmas, Old and New,158-61“Church in the Mountains,” by Jessie Stewart,222church music,268churches, new,266cider press, old,302Civil War,47,55,72,231,310,313,316,328Civilian Conservation Corps,288,290claims, land,32climate,7,41Clinch Valley,30coal mining,250-51coal mining and miners, yesterday and today,273-83“Coal Queen,”283Cockrell, James,74-81Cockrell-Hargis feud73-88Collins, Floyd,303;ballads of,235,237Confederacy, White House,310Congress of Industrial Organizations,289-90conjuring,180-85conservation,288Constitution, first American,29“convicts,” early,16corn, grinding of,112-13Cornstalk, Chief,300corpse, winking, legend of,203-05country dances,148County Coal Operators’ Association,283courting and song,122-34cow, poisoned,174-75Craft, Uncle Chunk,72-73Crawford, Bruce,294-99Creech, Martha,“Appalachia,”210;“The Robin’s Red Breast,”218;“Woman’s Way,”226Crisp, Adam, “Floyd Collins’ Fate,”237crocheting,120-22Crockett’s Hollow, legend of,180-85crops,112-21croup, curing,171crown, death,177-78Crystal Cave,303Cudo’s Cave,313“Cumberland,” origin of use of name,20Cumberland Falls Park,302-03Cumberland Gap and Mountain,4,20,26,30,33,46,313,328-29Cumberland Plateau,4,19Cumberland River,3,19customs, religious,155-67Cuttawa country,17,19dancing,145-50;modern,264-65;wedding,153Darrow, Clarence,314Davis, Esther Eugenia, “West Virginia,”214Davis, Jefferson,310Dayton, Tennessee,314death, omens of,177-79death crown,177-78“Death of Mary Fagin, The,” by Bob Salyers,232Declaration of Abingdon, Virginia,31-32Declaration of Independence,34deer woman and fawn, legend of,194-99Delisle, map,19Dillam-Buffum feud,88-91dipping snuff,289divining rod, use of,169-72Dixie Highway,328doctor, mountain, ballad of,223doctor, wizard,190doctors,173-74,261Donegal, Lord,12“Downfall of Paris, The,” by Coby Preston,246drives.SeehighwaysDug Down Mountains,105,310Duke, Effie and Richard, ballad of,234Duncannon, Governor,328Duquesne, Captain,36Eaton, Allen,Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands,306education.Seeschoolselectrification, rural,263-64Elizabeth, Queen,10,43Evans, Lewis, map,19evolution trial,314excise laws, hatred of,11,43explorers,16Fagin (Phagan), Mary, ballad of,232fairs, state,284families, large,285-86family honor,106-11Farm Security Administration,284,285,286,287farming,112-21,283-89“Fate of Effie and Richard Duke, The,” by Coby Preston,234“Fate of Floyd Collins, The,” by Jilson Setters,235fauna,8feather, white,178-79festivals,325-26feuds,45-111;ballad on,216;vanishing feudist,248-55.See alsofamily namesfighting and singing,317-27Flanery, Mrs. Mary Elliott,262-63flora,5-6,56“Floyd Collins’ Fate,” by Adam Crisp,237Foley, Ben,105-11Foley, Jorde,105-11Foley Sods,105folk festivals,325-26folk lore, and conservation of,320-27folk singing,317-27Folk Song Festival,241Folkways Association, American,320-27foot-washing,161-64,266,268-69Forest Festival,325forestry,288forests, national,300,301Fort Boone,39fortunes and riddles,135-50fox hunting,305Frank, Leo M., ballad of,232Franklin D. Roosevelt Highway,309Frazier’s Knob,302Frontier Nursing School,261Fugate, Chester,74-75funeralizing,155-58,267furs,17,19,22Future Farmer Association,283games, kissing,144Gandy Sinks,300Garrett, Aunt Sallie,55-72Garrett, William Dyke,55-72,201,202,295Gentry, Pol, legend of,189-94geography song,128-29Georgia Warm Springs,308-10Good, Professor E. S.,303“Good Shepherd of the Hills,”55-72Great Kanawha River,37Great Meadows, and Battle of,23,26Great Smoky Mountains National Park,292,312-13Green River,19,303Greene, General Nathanael,19Greenup (Hangtown), Kentucky,231Hamm family Eisteddfod,239handicrafts,306-07Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, by Allen Eaton,306Hangtown (Greenup), Kentucky,231Hargis, Beach, and murder of father,79,82-87Hargis, Elbert,254-55Hargis, Judge James, and murder by son,75-87Hargis-Cockrell feud,73-88Harkins, Hugh,269-70Harkins, Walter Scott,269-71Harlan, Kentucky,283Harlan Mining Institute,283Hart, “Honest” John,15Hart, Nathaniel,32Hatfield, “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,49-54Hatfield, Jonse,251Hatfield, Levisa Chafin,46-72;grave,200Hatfield, Sid,320-27Hatfield, Tennis,251Hatfield burying ground,199-202Hatfield-McCoy feud,46-72Hatfields and McCoys, reunion,254-55;singing together,317-27haunted house, legend of,205-09Hedrick, Ray, and his “haunted house,”205-09Henderson, Archibald,305Henderson, Richard,32,37Hennepin, Louis,18Henry, Patrick,30highways,291-93,309,315,328,329hill people, tribute to,322-25“hill-billies,”41-42Hindman Settlement School,259Hodgenville, Kentucky,304Holden, West Virginia,282-83Holston River,17,33home industry,117-19,262,306-07honor, family,107-11horses, race,303-04hospitality,42hounds, blessing of the,305house with the green gables, legend of,205-09hunters and trappers,17Huraken and Manuita, legend of,186-89Hutchins, Thomas, map,19,228hymns,66,67,70-71,157-58,162-63illiteracy,40;adult, school for,260improvements, modern,263-64Indents,15independence, spirit of,286Indians,9-10,