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Beginning of history in the Great Smoky Mountains
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GSMNP_10184_17_01_14Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
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The chroniclers* account of their passage of the mountains corresponds exactly with the topography from the head of the Broad or the Catawba, in the neighborhood of the present-day Marion, west through the Swanaaaoa Gap, along the "sayana1* or wide ■ bottom from Black Mountain to Sweananoa statioa, and out to the French Broad et the future sit© of Asheville, It really fits lal| ccuuiiry better than it does the region around Hendersonville or Brevard, wher© the river runs north. The Swannanoa Hiver does run toward th© Mississippi and would naturally suggest it to the Spaniards, who knew that their Sspirltn Santo was not north but west, of them* As far back as we have any knowledge, there was a wain trail from the mouth of the swannanpa up Hoaiay Creek, westward to the present Waynesville, up through the Balsam Gap, dom Scott*s Creak, thence to Webster, to the Cowee Village (now W©st*s Mill), and south up the Tennessee River to Franklin and th© Rabun Gap* This was the rout© taken in 1776 by the first American expedition against the Cherokees, that of General Griffith Rutherford, who chose it because it was the best way for an army to reach the Cherokee settlements* Thenceforth it was known as Rutherford's War :race* It is shown en Royce'a If De Soto followed this course, he cam© within ©leven air miles of the present site of Bryson City, Swain County, and he may have seen th© mighty rtimpart of the Smoky Mountains on the northern sky-line. The Suwali trail would have been a more roundabout way than on© past Brevard and highlands; but it may have been "the shortest way home" for those headed for Coosa, because, being a regular and well-beaten route of travel, th© men and horses could make better time over it* 11
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This “The Beginning of History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park” was written by Horace Kephart and delivered as an address to the National Park Service in 1930. The history focuses on Hernando de Soto's route through the Southern Appalachians in the 16th century. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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