Our Southern Highlanders: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Southern Highlanders, credited to Horace Kephart, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart. Read in English by Brize C; Meredith Womac Cook; Cbteddy. Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural observations during his time living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. - Summary by Meredith Womac Cook. Please note that due to the time period and setting, it contains some offensive language and overt racism.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Southern Highlanders
• Author credits: Horace Kephart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:41:06

Catalogue topics

• appalachia
• travel memoir
• appalachian mountains
• great smoky mountains

Track guide

1. 01 - Something Hidden Go and Find It — 21:32
2. 02 - The Back of Beyond — 26:08
3. 03 - The Great Smoky Mountains — 33:21
4. 04 - A Bear Hunt in the Smokies — 45:09
5. 05 - Moonshine Land — 19:44
6. 06 - Ways That Are Dark — 26:06
7. 07 - A Leaf from the Past — 29:08
8. 08 - Blockaders and The Revenue — 26:32
9. 09 - The Outlander and the Native — 28:50
10. 10 - The People of the Hills — 30:37
11. 11 - The Land of Do Without — 31:11
12. 12 - Home Folks and Neighbor People — 27:58
13. 13 - The Mountain Dialect — 45:16
14. 14 - The Law of the Wilderness — 30:43
15. 15 - The Blood-Feud — 39:03
16. 16 - Who Are the Mountaineers? — 32:40
17. 17 - When the Sleeper Wakes — 27:08

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