the last one i will use to talk about this more positive image. ,nother local color writer rebecca harding davis, and let me give you an excerpt from her article. " they were not covered with forks, nice, dishes or bed or any other impediments of civilization. they slept on the floor. " this is important. civilization,"f and she is saying these people are not civilized. good-natured, were honest, gentlefolk despite their dirty condition. in other words, they are good people. their ease with living in these conditions. appears to be one of the unknown luxuries of civilization howit is startling to see life resorts to its most primitive conditions without. hopefully you remember from our previous lecture that these people are connected to the larger market economy, that they are engaged in a cash market. so this does not necessarily represent the truth of what is going on. it is more the perception of what is going on. this firstdn't image, this more positive image of the mountaineer, why is it going to be appealing to these middle-class in northern readers? these are the individuals that are cons