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Our Southern Highlanders
''Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers'' is a book written by American author Horace Kephart (1862–1931), first published in 1913 and revised in 1922. Inspired by the years Kephart spent among the inhabitants of the remote Hazel Creek region of the Great Smoky Mountains, the book provides one of the earliest realistic portrayals of life in the rural Appalachian Mountains and one of the first serious analyses of Appalachian culture. While modern historians and writers have criticized ''Our Southern Highlanders'' for focusing too much on sensationalistic aspects of mountain culture, the book was an important departure from the previous century's local color writings and their negative distortions of mountain people.〔Heather Rhea Gilreath, "''Our Southern Highlanders''," ''Encyclopedia of Appalachia'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2006), p. 1080.〕〔
==Setting==
Hazel Creek originates on the slopes of Silers Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains and drops over its route to the Little Tennessee River, draining much of the southwestern part of the range along the way. The village of Medlin was located where modern Haw Gap Branch ("Haw Creek" on old maps) empties into Hazel Creek (the townsite is now Campsite 84 at the junction of Jenkins Ridge Trail and the Hazel Creek Trail). Kephart's cabin was located along Little Fork, a tributary of Sugar Fork, the latter in turn being a tributary of Haw Gap Branch.〔Horace Kephart, map drafted of Haw Creek area circa 1905, addendum in Duane Oliver, ''Hazel Creek From Then Til Now'' (Maryville, Tenn.: Stinnett Printing, 1989).〕 In 1904, the nearest railroad depot was away at Bushnell, a small town at the confluence of the Tuckasegee River and the Little Tennessee (now submerged by Fontana Lake).〔Michael Frome, ''Strangers in High Places'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1994), pp. 145-160.〕
Part of ''Our Southern Highlanders'' takes place atop the main crest of the Western Smokies between Gregory Bald and Silers Bald, which at the time was coated by a series of highland meadows used as livestock pastures during the growing season when bottomlands were needed for crops. Each pasture had a respective cabin for its summertime herdsman, namely (from west to east) the Russell cabin at what is now Russell Field, the Spencer cabin at what is now Spence Field, Hall cabin atop what is now Big Chestnut Bald (in the vicinity of the modern Derrick Knob shelter), and a cabin at Siler's Meadow (just off the summit of Silers Bald).〔Horace Kephart, ''Our Southern Highlanders'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1976), pp. 50-74.〕〔(History of the Grassy Balds in Great Smoky Mountains National Park ), March 7, 2008. Retrieved: May 24, 2009.〕 The Hall cabin mentioned often by Kephart should not be confused with the Hall cabin presently located at the end of the Bone Valley Trail, although both were built by Jesse "Crate" Hall.〔Duane Oliver, ''Hazel Creek From Then Til Now'' (Maryville, Tenn.: Stinnett Printing, 1989), p. 84.〕
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