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  • THE MOONSHINERS AT HOHO-HEBEE FALLS
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    THE MOONSHINERS AT HOHO-HEBEE FALLS
    MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
    Excerpt: "If the mission of the little school-house in Holly Cove was to impress upon the youthful mind a comprehension and appreciation of the eternal verities of nature, its site could hardly have been better chosen. All along the eastern horizon deployed the endless files of the Great Smoky Mountains—blue and sunlit, with now and again the apparition of an unfamiliar peak, h...

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  • THE BUSHWHACKERS & OTHER STORIES
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    THE BUSHWHACKERS & OTHER STORIES
    MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
    Excerpt: "One might have imagined that there was some enchantment in the spot which drew hither daily the young mountaineer’s steps. No visible lure it showed. No prosaic reasonable errand he seemed to have. But always at some hour between the early springtide sunrise and the late vernal sunset Hilary Knox climbed the craggy, almost inaccessible steeps to this rocky promontory,...

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  • THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
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    THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
    MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
    Another piece of Mary Murfree's excellent work (see my review of In the Stranger Peoples' Country). The Prophet of the Great Smokey Mountains is about law - customary, governmental, and divine - and the issue of translating between them. In less straightforward ways, it is also about the conflict between thought and feeling and between perspicacity and inevitable illusion or op...

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  • THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON
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    THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON
    MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
    Excerpt: "Along the buffalo paths, from one salt-lick to another, a group of pioneers took a vagrant way through the dense cane-brakes. Never a wheel had then entered the deep forests of this western wilderness; the frontiersman and the packhorse were comrades. Dark, gloomy, with long, level summit-lines, a grim outlier of the mountain range, since known as the Cumberland, stre...

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