He wrote hundreds of articles during his lifetime, but became especially renowned for his classic works Our Southern Highlanders and Camping and Woodcraft.

Railroads had pierced the mountains of western North Carolina in the 1880s and in their wake came large-scale industrial development, especially in the__________________industry and mining.

Kephart, who was personally modest and rarely sought the limelight, nevertheless used his abilities and reputation on behalf of the movement to create a ______________________.

When Kephart went south to live in the mountains, he was seeking the _________________________.

Kephart picked out the upper settlement of __________________ to fill his needs of isolation and to learn the mountain ways.

The mountain settlement where Kephart resided consisted of ___________ households scattered over an area 8 miles long and 2 miles wide.

Kephart knew of times when his neighborhood could get no salt or tobacco with making a __________________ mile trip over the mountain and back in the dead of winter.

Ginseng roots take ______________ years to mature.

The mainstay of every farmer, aside from his cornfield, was his litter of ______________________.

In these primitive communities every man was his own farmer, blacksmith, gunsmith, carpenter, cobbler, miller, tinker.