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