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Excerpt from The Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia From 1768 to 1795: Embracing the Life of Jesse Hughes and Other Noted Scouts of the Great Woods of the Trans-Allegheny, With Notes and Illustrative Anecdotes
Jesse Hughes was a pioneer in Northwestern Virginia, that region so designated in early annals and now principally included in the State of West Virginia. It was, at the time he came into it, a wilderness. It was a country of hills and clear streams and. Magnificent forests. It abounded in beautiful valleys, precip itous bluffs, rugged cliffs, and rolling uplands stretching away to greater elevations, ending finally in some watershed composed of steep and lofty ranges, outlying ?ankers Of the Alleghenies. These ranges are spread out without regularity or order. They are ever-present. They are formed, fashioned and separated by the swift streams ?owing by their bases to the larger tributaries of the Ohio. Trees cover them to their summits. Sometimes the country bears a park - like appearance; and again it becomes choked with thickets of bushes, brambles, vines and enormous greenbriers. Often the tom of the ranges are covered with immense masses of sandstone, from which innumerable fragments have scattered over both mountain and valley. It is a country of moods. In winter, when the trees are stripped and their branches bare, groan and creak in the north wind, it has a bleak and savage aspect. In summer it is full-leaved, delicately-lined, and lies blushing and plentifully - promising in a ?ood of sunshine. In autumn it is glowing, gorgeous, magnificently colored, sublime. The changing hues of the land create an environment which begets the spirit of mystery. The dweller therein is lifted above himself charmed. Something akin to worship rises in his heart as he views from some mountain - top his native land lying spread below him robed in colors more varied and beautiful than queen or princess ever wore. The mountaineer who wanders from this land may see vast plains covered with waving harvests, and a thousand hills covered with grazing cattle; he may live where rolls Old ocean; he may prosper in the riches of this world; he may attain fame and greatness and power; but his heart is in the romantic hills and enchanted valleys stretching down from the Alleghenies toward the great river which ?ows out to lose itself in roaring breakers and washing tides, and which so fitly typifies human life.
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Jesse Hughes was a pioneer in Northwestern Virginia, that region so designated in early annals and now principally included in the State of West Virginia. It was, at the time he came into it, a wilderness. It was a country of hills and clear streams and. Magnificent forests. It abounded in beautiful valleys, precip itous bluffs, rugged cliffs, and rolling uplands stretching away to greater elevations, ending finally in some watershed composed of steep and lofty ranges, outlying ?ankers Of the Alleghenies. These ranges are spread out without regularity or order. They are ever-present. They are formed, fashioned and separated by the swift streams ?owing by their bases to the larger tributaries of the Ohio. Trees cover them to their summits. Sometimes the country bears a park - like appearance; and again it becomes choked with thickets of bushes, brambles, vines and enormous greenbriers. Often the tom of the ranges are covered with immense masses of sandstone, from which innumerable fragments have scattered over both mountain and valley. It is a country of moods. In winter, when the trees are stripped and their branches bare, groan and creak in the north wind, it has a bleak and savage aspect. In summer it is full-leaved, delicately-lined, and lies blushing and plentifully - promising in a ?ood of sunshine. In autumn it is glowing, gorgeous, magnificently colored, sublime. The changing hues of the land create an environment which begets the spirit of mystery. The dweller therein is lifted above himself charmed. Something akin to worship rises in his heart as he views from some mountain - top his native land lying spread below him robed in colors more varied and beautiful than queen or princess ever wore. The mountaineer who wanders from this land may see vast plains covered with waving harvests, and a thousand hills covered with grazing cattle; he may live where rolls Old ocean; he may prosper in the riches of this world; he may attain fame and greatness and power; but his heart is in the romantic hills and enchanted valleys stretching down from the Alleghenies toward the great river which ?ows out to lose itself in roaring breakers and washing tides, and which so fitly typifies human life.
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Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
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