17 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 31; William Byrd, The London Diary (1717-1721) and Other Writings (New York, 1958), 588-89; Edmund Morgan, Virginians at Home (New York, 1952), 73; similar observations were made two centuries later of Appalachian families in industrial cities such as Baltimore and Detroit.

18 Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish; A Social History, 151.

19 Michael J. O’Brien and Dennis E. Lewarch, “The Built Environment,” in M. J. O’Brien, ed., Grassland, Forest and Historical Settlement (Lincoln, Neb., 1984), 231-65; Terry Jordan, Texas Log Building: A Folk Architecture (Austin, 1978); Wilbur Zelinsky, “The Log House in Georgia,” GR 43 (1953), 173-93; Eugene M. Wilson, Alabama Folk Houses (Montgomery, Ala., 1975); Donald A. Hutslar, The Log Architecture of Ohio (Columbus, 1977); Charles McRaven, Building the Hewn Log House (New York, 1978); Fred Kniffen, “Louisiana House Types,” AAAG 26(1936), 179-93.

20 Amos Long, “Fencing in Rural Pennsylvania,” PF 12 (1961), 30-35; Arthur Dobbs in Colonial Records of North Carolina, V, 262.