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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TYI'ICAI, CABIN OF MOUNTAINi:i:r{. WKST VIKIMNIA 



CASCADE OX BRAXCI 



LITTLE UIVER, TENNESSEE 



witli \erv little intermaniage t'l'oir. other parts of tlie eountry. siiiee 

 that time. It is a peculiar and isolated people and as foreign to the 

 great mass of American population as the inhabitants of Europe 

 or Central America. These denizens of the narrow valleys are now- 

 adays small farmers, although at an early date they were hunters as 

 well. But more than a hundred years of incessant seeking after wild 

 animals and birds has nearly exhausted the game from the entire 

 region, and brook trout and other fish in the streams are on the road 

 to extinction. 



These inhabitants liave |ier-iiliar morals ami strong religious beliefs. 



They live in isolation, in poverty and in contentment. They are 

 hospitable to a marked degree ; their law is Mosaic : ' ' An eye for an 

 eye, a tooth for a tooth;" they recognize no enactment that pro- 

 hibits them from making "moonshine" whisky; neither can they 

 see any. justice in a law that forbids them from killing a human being 

 who has wronged them. 



There are narrow valleys in the Virginias, eastern Tennessee, west- 

 ern North Carolina, northern South Carolina and Geoi"gia, encom- 

 passed by mountain ranges, in which nearly every man, woman and 

 child are related to each other. In the local vernacular thev are 



WATERFALL, SEVIER COUNTY. TENNESSEE 



CASCADE, SEVIER COUNTY, TENTS'ESSEE 



