Doris Ulmann, a noted New York photographer, spent the last several years of her life traveling through the southern Appalachian mountains in search of people whose way of life moved or intrigued her. Her work led her to photograph schoolchildren and college presidents, women at their looms and men carving animals from wood. Traveling companions from writer Julia Peterkin to folk musician John Jacob Niles said that Ulmann's drive to make photographs blocked out heat and fatigue during the day and kept her up nights developing the day's prints. By the time of her death in 1934, she had created more than 10,000 portraits of the rural artists and craftspeople she affectionately termed my mountaineers. Using Ulmann's photographs and correspondence; archival film; and interviews with historians Dr. Melissa McEuen, Dr. Ron Pen, Loyal Jones, and David Featherstone, as well as individuals photographed by Ulmann, award-winning Kentucky filmmaker Heather Lyons explores the life and work of one of America's most important and prolific photographers. Produced with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.