Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
Introduction: Walking the Line -- 1. Cherokee Myths and the Pleasures of Geopiety -- 2. Puc Puggy in the Nantahalas: The Turning Point of William Bartram's Travels -- 3. Mary Noailles Murfree: Ecofeminist of the Great Smoky Mountains -- 4. Horace Kephart's "Man's Game" and the Community of Our Southern Highlanders -- 5. Pilgrim at Tinker Cliffs -- 6. From Imperialism to Nationalism: The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Cross the Blue Ridge -- 7. Confluences: The View from Jefferson Rock -- 8. From Wind Gap to Water Gap: On the Trail of Edgar Huntly -- 9. Where the Open Road Meets Howl -- 10. Greylock and the Whale -- 11. Synecdoche and Ecology: Frost in the Greens and Whites -- 12. Democracy and Ecology: Hawthorne's White Mountain Stories -- 13. Contact! Contact! A Walk to Thoreau's Ktaadn