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son Johnson, described the self-sufficient way of life of the mountain people up until WW II. They raised animals, gathered nuts and berries and grew enough to eat and trade. “Nobody had any money, but nobody was poor or went hungry.”
That land, which couldn’t produce much, was so rocky that every year a killing hog would break a leg and have to be shot. When land value was based on what it could produce, the mountain land was worth only $3 an acre (around the 1900’s). After
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