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Neighbors of yesterday, (Boston, Sherman, French & company, 1916), by Jeanne Robert Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
The shepherdess of the Alps : a very interesting, pathetic, and moral history. (Glasgow : Printed for the booksellers, [ca. 1839]), by Jean-François Marmontel (page images at HathiTrust)
The shepherdess of the Alps : a very interesting, pathetic and moral tale. (York : J. Kendrew, printer, Collier-Gate, [180-?]), by Jean-François Marmontel and James Kendrew (page images at HathiTrust)
An Adirondack idyl, (New York, C.T. Dillingham & co., [c1893]), by Lida Ostrom Vanamee (page images at HathiTrust)
A Southern home in war times / (New York : Broadway Publishing Company, c1914), by Rose Harlow Warren and Broadway Publishing Co. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
Christmas eve on Lonesome ; "Hell-fer-sartain" ; In Happy Valley / (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920, c1917), by John Fox and John Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
The keeper of the vineyard : a tale of the Ozarks / (New York ; Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company, c1913), by Caroline Abbot Stanley and Fleming H. Revell Company. pbl, illust. by Samuel M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mohawk Peter : legends of the Adirondacks and Civil War memories / (Boston : The Cornhill Publishing Co., c1921), by Henry G. Dorr and Cornhill Publishing Company. pbl, illust. by Nellie L. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Blue Ridge breezes / (Richmond, Va. : Appeals Press, 1918), by J. M. Rowland and Appeals Press. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
Almetta of Gabriel's Run / (New York : The Meridian Press, c1917), by Louise S. Murdoch and Meridian Press. pbl, illust. by H. A Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
Gertrude and Virgilia, or, Victories in the wildwood / (Col[umbus] O. : L.B.C., 1917), by Blanche Margaret Milligan and Felicia Buttz. Virgilia Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Tim, a Kentucky mountain story / (Kansas City, Mo. : The Press of Burton Publishing Company, c1908), by W. H. Coffey, Herman P. Keusch, and Burton Publishing Company. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
Abner Daniel : a novel / (New York ; and London : Harper & Brothers, 1902), by Will N. Harben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Heidi : by Johanna Spyri ; illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. (Philadelphia : David McKay Company, 1922), by Johanna Spyri (page images at HathiTrust)
The Sinbad mines : a tale of the Rockies / (Denver, Col. : Reed Pub. Co., c1905), by E. F. Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Heidi, (New York, T. Y. Crowell, [c1902]), by Johanna Spyri, trans. by Helene S. White and Helene Schimmelfennig White (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle Jed's country letters / (Boston ; New York : Henry A. Dickerman & Son, c1902), by Hilda Brenton, Plimpton Press. bnd, Plimpton Press. prt, and Henry A. Dickerman & Son. pbl, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton (page images at HathiTrust)
Heidi / (Philadelphia : McKay, 1922), by Johanna Spyri and Jessie Willcox Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1885), by Charles Egbert Craddock (page images at HathiTrust)
Out of the Ozarks / (New York ; Washington : Neale Pub. Co., 1908), by William N. Ruggles, contrib. by Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Heidi / (Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott company, 1915), by Johanna Spyri and Charles Wharton Stork, trans. by Elisabeth P. Stork, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
The gate is down; a novel of the Alabama hills. (New York : Exposition Press, [1956]), by William H. Yancey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Heidi: a story for girls, (New York, A. L. Burt, [c1901]), by Johanna Spyri, trans. by H. A. Melcon (page images at HathiTrust)
Sammy / (Chicago : Whitman, 1946), by May Justus, illust. by Christine Chisholm (page images at HathiTrust)
Fiddler's fair / (Chicago : Albert Whitman & Company, 1945), by May Justus, illust. by Christine Chisolm (page images at HathiTrust)
Christmas eve on Lonesome, and other stories, (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1904), by John Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
High in the mountains : Robi and Hanni in the Swiss Alps / (Chicago : Albert Whitman & company, 1938), by Emma L. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
Life among the hills and mountains of Kentucky / (Louisville, Ky. : Standard Printing Co. Press ; Allen, Ky. : Sandy Valley Pub. Co., distributors, c1926), by William Roscoe Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Mountain life -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga (c1993), by Jock Lauterer, contrib. by Maggie Lauterer (PDF at appstate.edu)
Cabin: A Mountain Adventure (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1986), by Barbara G. Hallowell, illust. by Aline Hansens (multiple formats at appstate.edu)

Filed under: Mountain life -- Fiction

The Summer People (c1989), by John Foster West (PDF and EPub with commentary at appstate.edu)
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
Heart of the Blue Ridge (New York: W.J. Watt and Co., c1915), by Waldron Baily, illust. by Douglas Duer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by John Fox, illust. by F. C. Yohn (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by Douglas Duer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain (first edition, 1892), by Shepherd Monroe Dugger (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
The Bushwhackers and Other Stories (Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1899), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Call of the Cumberlands, by Charles Neville Buck (Gutenberg text)
The Heart of the Hills, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
Altowan: or, Incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1846), by William Drummond Stewart, ed. by J. Watson Webb
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
Christmas Eve on Lonesome, and Other Stories, by John Fox, illust. by F. C. Yohn, Arthur Ignatius Keller, W. A. Rogers, and H. C. Ransom (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
The Frontiersmen, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
"Hell fer Sartain" and Other Stories, by John Fox (Gutenberg text)
In the "Stranger People's" Country (New York: Harper and Bros., 1891), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories, by Mary Noailles Murfree (HTML at Emory)
The Raid of the Guerilla, and Other Stories (collection of 10 stories; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and Remington Schuyler (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by Malcolm Fraser (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The bushwhackers & other stories, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg ebook)
Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, by Florence Lilian Bush and Isabel Graham Bush (Gutenberg ebook)
De lynch-wet (in Dutch), by Gustave Aimard, trans. by L. C. Cnopius, illust. by Charles Rochussen (Gutenberg ebook)
The Land of Content, by Edith Barnard Delano, illust. by J. Henry (Gutenberg ebook)
Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies, by Howard R. Driggs (Gutenberg ebook)
The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory, by L. Dougall (Gutenberg ebook)
A Man: His Mark. A Romance: Second Edition, by W. C. Morrow, illust. by Elenore Plaisted Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)
Abner Daniel: A Novel, by Will N. Harben (Gutenberg ebook)
The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky Mountains, by Gustave Aimard, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
The Code of the Mountains, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg ebook)
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg ebook)
When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories, by Mary Noailles Murfree, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and Remington Schuyler (Gutenberg ebook)
The Tempering, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (Gutenberg ebook)
Mothering on Perilous, by Lucy S. Furman, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Mary Lane McMillan (Gutenberg ebook)
The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg ebook)
The Boy from Hollow Hut: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, by Isla May Mullins (Gutenberg ebook)
The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West, by A. Maynard Barbour (Gutenberg ebook)
Heart of the Blue Ridge, by Waldron Baily (Gutenberg ebook)
Mountain Blood: A Novel, by Joseph Hergesheimer (Gutenberg ebook)
In Happy Valley, by John Fox, illust. by F. C. Yohn (Gutenberg ebook)
A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg ebook)

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