The Kentucky Highlanders from a Native Mountaineer's Viewpoint

by Josiah Henry Combs

From inside the
"The Kentucky Highlanders" was published, in part, in Tom Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, for March, 1912, With the permission of this magazine it is here published in full. My only apology for publishing a brochure of this sort is an attempt to correct, what is in my opinion, some erroneous impressions under which the outside world has long labored, with regard to the Kentucky Mountaineers.

In my discussion of religious conditions in the mountains, I trust that my Primitive Baptist friends in that section of the state will be fair-minded enough not to consider it as a thrust, or a challenge. Further, I would add that the con-tents of this brochure have reference, not especially to the towns in the mountains, but more particularly to the outlying sections.

1.Origin, Extent And Nationality
2.The Scotch-irish Theory
3.The Scotch Highlander Theory
4.Old English As A Theory
5.Folk-lore And Philology As An Argument
6.Old And Middle English
7.The Mountaineer'S Personality And Hospitality
8.The Women Of The Mountains
9.No Social Castes
10.Born Lawyers And Politicians
11.Decay Of The Feud Spirit
12.Old English Customs And Superstitions
13.Coquetry And Flirting Unknown
14.Folk-lore And Balladry
15.The Mountaineer's Religion
16.The Educational Outlook
17.What Of The Future?

This book published in 1913 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

52 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 23, 2013