A Mountain Feist is a type of dog; like the lurcher, it is not a specific breed. The Mountain Feist was created in the southern portion of North America. It can be a mixed breed, and is sometimes mistaken for a rat terrier or a Jack Russell terrier.
The ancestral homeland of the Mountain Feist is the Southern Appalachian and Ozark Mountains. Written accounts of the dogs go back centuries to a poem by Abraham Lincoln ("The Bear Hunt") and George Washington's diary. A feist dog is also featured in William Faulkner's "Go Down Moses".
It is uncertain how long feist dogs have been in America but it is generally accepted that they played a vital role in the lives of early pioneers just like their larger relatives, curs.
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