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Beginning of history in the Great Smoky Mountains

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  • lata which these two historians hav*-> fallen. neither of them cites any authority whatever for his conclusion regarding the location of 5lu..;la, neither of them saams to have r?lven any attention to the exhaustive and scholarly work of IJeoney in tracing De get*'* matt through the mountains. And Mooaey does ?;ive his authorities fa» evoxv btatoaent he makes; so w© can check h® on hira and verify his conclusions* 3oth Bolton and Myer confuse the Suali or Cheraw Indians with th* Cherokees. They evidently were irdslad by a mere fancied resemblance in sound between the Spanish caroniolars* Xuala and the Quails* settlement la the present Cherake© lands on the Ooonaluftoe, Cualla was originally the name of th© late Col# Willie® it. Thomas* trading station and agency headquarters. It is not even a Cherokee word; but is th© Indian pronunciation of th® English nam© Polly, given hy the whites to an old squaw who lived near Col, Thomas* store. So the nam© Cualla was first used about three hundred years later tftsl the time of D© Soto*a march. In any ease, by whatever trails th® Spanish adventurers hurried through the mountain fastness of the Oiisrokees, they maae & lasting impression. Those imperious, white-faced, bearded men in leather armor and stoel helmets, who bor® tubes that dealt death with fir* and thunder, who rod® great tamed beasts th© Ilk® of which no Cherokee had ever seen or imagined, wore awesome figures, prodigies from another world* And they were th® forerunners of a new age* SO it is that .'although this Cherokee country of ours is th© last frontier east of the Mississippi, the last territory ceded to the United States by eg ahoriginal nation, in the East, still it is ancient
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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