The Tow-head Angler--The Brook Trout--Points--The Paragon Month for Fishing--Artificial Ponds--Trip to the Toe--Anti-Liquor--Rattlesnakes--Mitchell’s Peak--A Ghost Story--In Weird Out-lines--Burnsville--Pigeon River--Cataluche--Mount Starling and its Black Brothers--Whipping the Stream--Striking a Bargain--An Urchin’s Ideas--Swain County Trout Streams--In Jackson and Macon--A Grand Cataract--Trout, Buck and Panther--In the Northwest Counties.....107 _AFTER THE ANTLERS._ The Heart of the Smokies--Clingman’s Dome--Prospect from the Summit--Mounted Sportsmen--A Mountain Bug-Bear--Charleston--The Dungeon--A Village Storekeeper--Beautiful River Bends--At the Roses’--A Typical Mountain Cabin--Quil’s Wolf story--A Quick Toilet--The Footprints of Autumn--Knowledge from Experience--The Ridge Stand--Buck Ague--On Long Rock--A Superb Shot--The Buck Vanishes--Acquitted Through Superstition--The Hunter’s Hearthstone.....137 _NATURAL RESOURCES._ The “Tar-Heel” Joke--Tobacco--Favorable Conditions for Gold Leaf--A Ruinous Policy--Hickory--Shelby--In Piedmont--Old Field Land--General Clingman’s Story--Watauga County--Unequalled Pastures--Prices of Lands--Stock Raising--The French Broad Tobacco Slopes--Fair Figures--Henderson and Transylvania--The Pigeon Valley--The Extreme Southwest Portion--Character of Wild Range--Horticulture--The Thermal Zone--Forests for Manufacturers--The Gold Zone--Mica Mines--Corundum--Iron Deposits--The Cranberry Ore Bank--Copper, Lead, Tin, and Silver--Precious Stones.....167 _HISTORICAL RESUME._ Early Emigration--Daniel Boone--The “Pennsylvania Dutch”--Conservatism--The Revolutionary Forces--The King’s Mountain Battle--“Nollichucky Jack”--The Prisoner’s Escape--The State of Franklin--The Pioneers--Formation of Counties--The Western North Carolina Railroad--During the Late War--Restless Mountains--Scientific Explorations--Calhoun’s Observation--The Tragedy of the Black Mountains--Later Surveys--Representatives of the Mountain People.....213 _IN THE SADDLE._ Mounting in Asheville--A Surly Host--Bat Cave--Titanic Stone Cliffs--Chimney Rock Hotel--The Pools--A Sunset Scene--The Shaking Bald--The Spectre Cavalry Fight--A Twilight Gallop Through McDowell County--Pleasant Gardens--The Catawba Valleys--On the Linville Range--Table Rock and Hawk-Bill--The Canon--Innocents Abroad--The Fox and the Pheasant--Linville Falls--A Dismal Woodland--Traveling Families--Grandfather Mountain--The Ascent--A Sunday Ride--Blowing Rock--Boone--Valle Crucis--Elk River--The Cranberry Mines--On the Roan--Cloud-Land Hotel--A Hermit’s History--Above a Thunder Storm--Bakersville--Traces of a Prehistoric People--The Sink-Hole and Ray Mica Mines--Cremation--Drawing Rein.....237 _BEYOND IRON WAYS._