Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Family background and early life, 1868-1895
  • Appendix 1 : Lumber rafting in the mid-nineteenth century
  • First mountain teaching : Joppa, Alabama, 1895-1898
  • Appendix 2 : Letters from Joppa pupils
  • Teaching years : Pleasant Hill and Demorest : Grant for study of mountain region, 1898-1908
  • Travel in the mountains : the study, 1908-1909
  • Report and first conference, 1909-1913
  • The Southern Highland Division : beginnings, 1913-1914
  • The Southern Highland Division's widening field, 1914-1915
  • Ballads added : Part 1 : 1915-1916
  • Ballads added : Part 2, 1916
  • Fifth conference and ballads, 1916-1917
  • War work, 1918
  • The last year, 1918-1919.