sugarland

Updated: May 19, 2025

The only game animal that still holds his own is the black bear, and he endures in few places other than the roughest districts, such as that southwest of the Sugarland Mountains, where laurel and cliffs daunt all but the hardiest of men. The only venomous snakes in the mountains are rattlers and copperheads, the former common, the latter rare.

Horace Kephart - Our Southern Highlanders

We spent the evening in debate as to where the next drive should be made. Some favored moving six miles eastward, to the old mining shack at Siler's Meadow, and trying the headwaters of Forney's Creek, around Rip Shin Thicket and the Gunstick Laurel, driving towards Clingman Dome and over into the bleak gulf, southwest of the Sugarland Mountains, that I had named Godforsaken a title that stuck.

Horace Kephart - Our Southern Highlanders