The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1891-09-17
TIE AnuNnAsr HARvEsT,

THE ABUNDANT HARVEST,
although for the most part cut and stacked, had
not been gathered iu, and the 0DlIque light OF
sunset strcamei from over the AllCganIes'
crcsts illuminating a region whose peaceful
beauty il would be difficult 10 cXa2gcTate. On
tho west the mountains were in shadow below
taeir peaks, while toward the east stand NJ in
cchclon, successive sections Of the Blue Ridge,
with their passes broken SUBMITS and slopes
clothed with waving woods, were bathed IN the
radiance OF the evening sky.
TO the north tie white houses Of Broadway
cleaned n the distance and looking south
ward the faint outline o. Elliors Knob dciucd
Itself upon the horizon. All the secondary
valleys Of tho middle distance he'd LelGs AID
farm houses, whose imFeG.ectious were vailed
by the hazy atmosphere and within the scope
Of ordinary vision lay iacmcuior oi times long
anterior 10 those ia which the white man APP
pearcd, and one relic, al least, Of those ages
which connect the present world and Us exist
ing population with period IN which every
object with which common experience ac-
quaiuts us was different.
Linville Creek, or rather that branch Of il
called J0cs Fork. runs by the base 81 the hill
spoken 90 and above II, upDu lis southern slope,
DE the iudi,tinct fragments Of tie cabin built
by that FIRST Liuvile who made a hunting aud
trapping expedition into this section before
lsB2 Local tradition says that De returned TO
Winchester, then Fort L0udoun, and fred tho
IWAGTSATIOSs oF SETTLERS
in that vicinity with Gescripiiousof the beauty
and fertility 0f these hunting
j is certain, however. that Jos Ii.p who,
with his own immediate family and those OF
Iis sOns-iu-.aW, made the earliest settlement
in any part 81 the Shenandoah Valley pro-
cured a grant for this portion OF the present
County oil Rockingham !T0T ihe authorities at
Williamsburg aud estab. i-Ici themselves here
iu I73- 80
beds Given in the names OF IIitc, Bowman,
DUH, Mckay, etc. for farms upon which their
descendants s;lll live arc cNtant. aud Mr.. Penny
bacEcf possesses the original document by
which tracts of land lying alon. LiuvilIo Creek
were decided ly the former 10 The grandfather
aud greatunee AZ President Lincoln Both
the LIick dwelling Of ihc latter ard the Jog
house of has brother were plainly visible from
the hight occupied by the writer
Along the course Of this stream, which rises
from a spring ia The vicinity, and is led by
brooks that have similar sources in this well
walcred County, lie the old FHycyards where
these pioneers were buried. According 20 the
evidence collected by kercheval, 40 h0siiitics
occurred between The native tribes resident
here and the whites for about % years.
This part Of the history OF Virginia Is in
VOWED in oh9cnUty, and its events cannot be
known Iu detail. 30 instance, however. Is Oh
record 81 Tie peaceful occupation by q higher
race u a country populated by savage; and.
al the same time, 10 is 81 an things iHn most
improbable that the latter were wholly in
fault. War; 81 course, broke out finally and
although IL cannot be seen from the point Of
view selected for observation, one OF its early
monuments exists in the form Of defensive
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