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University of North Carolina at
Asheville Book register for: The Southern Mountaineers Special Collections F217.A65 W762 1914 |
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| Title | The Southern Mountaineers | |||
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/specialcoll/findingaids/books/wilson/default_wilson_samuel.htm | |||
| Creator | Wilson, Samuel Tyndale, D.D. [President of Maryville College and Stated Clerk and Official Historian of the Synod of Tennessee] | |||
| Alt. Creator | Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. | |||
| Subject Keyword | Presbyterians ; Presbyterian Synods ; Presbyterian Board of Home Missions ; western North Carolina ; Asheville, NC ; religion ; Samuel Tyndale Wilson ; Southern Appalachians ; churches ; schools ; Dorland Bell school ; Dorland Institute, NC ; Farm School, Swannanoa, NC ; "mountain whites" ; "mountaineers" ;Kings Mountain ; Civil War ; War Between the States ; preaching ; preachers ; Burnsville Academy, NC ; Laura Sunderland Memorial ; Marshall Academy ; Jarrold's Valley, WV ; Flag Pond, NC ; Hyden Academy, KY ; Industrial Home, KY. | |||
| Subject LCSH | Wilson, Samuel Tyndale Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works North Carolina -- Description and travel Asheville (N.C.) -- Description and travel |
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| Date | Date of object: 1906 ; Date digital: 2007-09-17 | |||
| Publisher | [Publisher] Literature Department, Presbyterian Home Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1906 ; [Digital Publisher] D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 | |||
| Contributor |
Presbyterian Home Missions, New York City. |
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| Type | Source type: text ;illustrations | |||
| Format | image/jpeg/text | |||
| Source | SpecColl F217.A65 W762 1914 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Relation | E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, UNCA ; | |||
| Coverage | 1906 ; western North Carolina | |||
| Rights | Any display, publication or
public use must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections,
University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
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| Donor | Special Collections purchase | |||
| Description | A small but comprehensive accounting of the work of the Presbyterian Church in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. | |||
| Acquisition | n/a | |||
| Citation | Wilson, Samuel T.. The Southern Mountaineers, (1906), D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 | |||
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2004 | |||
| Last update | 200 | |||
| Biography | Samuel Tyndale Wilson | |||
| [Cover] The Southern Mountaineers by Samuel Tyndale Wilson |
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| Frontispiece: |
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| Forward: "The home mission field of the American Church extends over our entire land. It includes city, town, village, and country, throughout the North, the South, the East, and the West. Every division of this wide field is intensely interesting to the loyal Christian. No other part of the field appeals to the heart with more romantic interest than does that included in the southern Appalachians. In this little book the story of the southern mountaineers is told by one who has been all his lifetime identified with then, and loves them, and has been their ready champion whenever occasion offered. The Board is glad to have the story so authoritatively and sympathetically presented to the Church at large." |
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Contents
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| Chapter I: THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS -- Rocky Mountain System -- Appalachian Mountain System -- Northern Appalachians -- Southern Appalachians -- Their Scenery - Climate - Products and Resources - Population - Seclusion .... | ||||
| Chapter II. THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINEERS. A Composite Stock -- Principally Scotch-Irish -- Other Strains -- Scotch-Irish Evolution -- "Transplantation of Ulster" -- Roosevelt's Tribute -- Three Classes of Mountaineers: (1) Class One is Helping -- (2) Class Two Will Help -- (3) Class Three Needs Help -- Modifications of these Classes -- "Mountaineers," Not "Mountain Whites" ... | ||||
| Chapter III: THE SERVICE OF THE MOUNTAINEERS. The Nation's Frontiersmen -- Established Christianity, Protestantism, Democracy, Civil Government and Education -- Service to the Nation -- Share in the Revolution -- King's Mountain -- War of 1812 and Mexican War -- Civil War -- Spanish-American War -- Service of Individuals | ||||
| 23-37 | Chapter IV: THE APPALACHIAN PROBLEM. Dixie's Two Problems -- Black Problem -- White Problem -- Problem and Its Peculairities (1) American (2) Protestant, (3) White, (4) Country, (5) Varied and Complex (6) Delicate, and (7) Urgent ... | |||
| 38-48 | Chapter V: THE MOUNTAINEERS REASON FOR BEING. How They Became Mountaineers: (1) Hunting and Fishing Attractive (2) Only Land Available (3) Few "Outlaws" (4) Influence of Slavery (5) Mountain Fecundity -- Why Remain in Mountains? (1) Few Do Migrate (2) Inertia Hinders (3) Local Attachments (4) Ambition Dormant (5) Timidity Dominant (6) Precedent Lacking (7) Poverty Prevents -- So, Populous Mountains ... | |||
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Chapter VI: THE PROBLEM'S REASON FOR BEING. Problem Restated -- Some In statuQuo Ante -- Reasons for Problem: (1) Lack of Live Neighbors (2) Of varied Society (3) Of Incentive to Labor (4) Of Trade (5) Of Means of Communication (6) Of Money (7) Of Schools: Southern Education Board's Statistics (8) Of Books (9) Of Educated Leaders -- Devolution Versus Evolution | |||
| 61-77 | Chapter VII: PIONEER PRESBYTERIANISM AND THE PROBLEM. Presbyterians Were Dominant -- Presbyterians Were Active -- Founded Churches -- Founded Schools -- Founded Colleges -- Helped Found State -- And Were Successful -- And Their Work Abides | |||
| 78-85 | Chapter VIII : LATER PRESBYTERIANISM AND THE PROBLEM. Causes of Presbyterianis's Partial Failure: (1) Decay of Education (2) Territory Too Vast (3) Ministers Few (4) No Mission Boards (5) Many Ministers Went West -- But Workers Did Their Utmost -- Southern and Western Theological Seminary (6) Divisions of Presbyterianism -- Other Denominations -- Some Unchurched Neighborhoods -- The Post-Presbyterian Age. | |||
| 86-96 | Chapter IX: PRESENT-DAY PRESBYTERIANISM AND THE PROBLEM. How Solve Problem? (1) By Development of Trade (2) By Perfection of Public School System (3) By Perfecting of Public School System (3) By Multiplication of Home Mission Agencies -- What is the Mission of Our Church? (1) To Preach to Every Creature (2) To Discharge Debt to Brethren (3) To Help Other Denominations (4) To Employ Usual Methods (5) But, Principally, to Educate -- Not Usurping Functions of State -- Schools the Key to Situation -- Schools Will Train the Leaders -- And Pay Debt to Other Churches -- And Stimulate Them to Similar Educational Work -- Thus, More Light. | |||
| 97-108 | Chapter X. THE DAY-SCHOOLS. A Notable School System -- A Triple System -- Day-Schools: Their Genesis -- Conditions of the Renaissance: (1) A Model Home (2) The Teachers' Consecrated Lives (3) Instruction in School and Home (4) Bible Study (5) Religious Instruction -- Results: (1) Community Aroused (2) Old People Helped (3) Young People Transformed (4) Usually, Church Established (5) Testimony of a Visitor -- Bible-Readers --Statistics. | |||
| 109-121 | Chapter XI. THE ACADEMIES AND BOARDING-SCHOOLS. The Strategic County Seat -- Presbyterial Academies -- Academies and Boarding-Schools -- Nearly Thirty Such Centers -- Policy and Purpose -- Buildings -- Teachers -- A Kentucky Trio -- A Kentucky Quintette -- And Another Terio -- East Tennessee Academies -- Favored Old North STate -- Dorland Institute -- Marshall Academy -- Burnsville Academy -- Laura Sunderland Memorial -- Where the Graduates Go. | |||
| 122-134 | Chapter XII. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOLS. Ideal Location -- Rich Investment -- Three-Fold Object (1) The Hoime INdustrial School ; The Hand of Providence - The Devotion of the Founders -- The Scope to the School -- The Support of the School -- The Annex That Must Come (2) The Farm School: Its Development -- Its Design -- Its Rich Fruitage (3) The NOrmal and Collegiate Institute: "The Keystone School" -- Its Plant -- Its Clientage -- Its Teachers -- Its Courses of STudy -- "Systematic Education" -- Religious Life -- The Outcome. | |||
| 135-147 | Chapter XIII. THE APPALACHIAN PROMISE. A Preventive May Cure - Presbyterian Antecedents -- Rapid Rehabilitation -- Ready Assimilation -- Strong Body -- Strong and Keen Mind -- Resolute Will -- Supreme Self-Confidence -- Spirit of Independence -- Initiative for Leadership -- Simple Faith -- Strong Religious Nature -- Will Save Mountains -- Kept for Master's Use -- Appalachian Providence -- Appalachian Promise. | |||
| 148-160 | APPENDIX. Statistical Tables of the Presbyterian School Systems of the Synods of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia for the Year 1905; Also of the Sabbath-School Missionary Department of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. | |||
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
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| The Southern Appalachians [Map] from "Frye's Geography" | Frontispiece OPPOSITE PAGE 16 |
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| A Mountain Farm | p. 16 | |||
| On the Hillside | p. 16 | |||
| Bible-Readers' Home, Jarrold's Valley, W.Va. | p. 32 |
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| Pikeville Collegiate Institute, Ky. | p. 48 | |||
| Hyden Academy and Industrial Home, Ky. | p. 64 |
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| Schoolhouse and Teachers' Home, Flag Pond, Tenn. | p. 80 |
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| Dorland Institute, Hot Springs, N.C. | p. 96 |
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| Laura Sunderland Memorial, Concord, N/C. | p.112 |
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| The Farm School, Near Asheville, N.C. | p.128 |
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| Normal and Collegiate Institute, Asheville, N.C. | p. 144 |
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