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Untamed America: A Comment On A Sojourn In The Kentucky Mountains

In the early 1920's Percy MacKaye spent a Zong summer and early autumn gathering material for folk drama in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky (near Pine Mountain). A series of plays with the title of This Fine Pretty World resulted. Other titles including Tall Tales from the Kentucky Hills and articles on folk drama in the Literary Digest and this article "Untamed America" (Survey Graphic, Jan. 1924) followed. It is reprinted here because it makes as fine a case for Appalachian culture and its preservation as one is likely to find. Through the eyes and experiences of more than fifty years ago is presented a view that would seem peculiarly modern—if we did not know better. If nothing more, it provides a knowledge and a perspective with which to judge the Appalachian experience in relation to the encroaching "outside" world. And without this, not just Appalachia, but big-push America might well be hst.