THE ANGLO-SAXONS OF THE KENTUCKY
                      MOUNTAINS :

         A STUDY IN ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY

                                BY

                  ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE







  In one of the most progressive and productive countries of the
world, and in that section of the country which has had its civilization
and its wealth longest, we find a large area where the people are still
living the frontier life of the backwoods, where the civilization is that
of the eighteenth century, where the people speak the English of
Shakespeare's time, where the large majority of the inhabitants have
never seen a steamboat or a railroad, where money is as scarce as in
colonial days, and all trade is barter. It is the great upheaved mass
of the Southern Appalachians which, with the conserving power of
the mountains, has caused these conditions to survive, carrying a bit
of the eighteenth century intact over into this strongly contrasted
twentieth century, and presenting an anachronism all the more
marked because found in the heart of the bustling, money-making,
novelty-loving United States. These conditions are to be found
throughout the broad belt of the Southern Appalachians, but nowhere
in such purity or covering so large an area as in the mountain region
of Kentucky.
  A mountain system is usually marked by a central crest, but the

  e The above article appeared in The Georah/aicalJoernal for June, 190o. and now is repub-
lished in America, by the kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society, in response to a repeated
demand from students of geography and sociology for copies which could no longer be furnished.-
E. C. S.