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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • I , „„ IN 1HE MILL HIS G ; .; ' :>, $0>Mii-tf .- , c-».. KJNG5PORT SOME OF THESE OLD MILLS ARE STILL IN SERVICE The Pioneers of the Smokies WHILE THE Great Smoky Mountains are frequently referred to as a "wilderness," generally unknown to a majority of the people of the country, let it be understood that these great highlands have not been uninhabited. True, they have always been rather sparsely "settled," but those who have familiarized themselves with their history claim that for four hundred years the Cherokee Indians, succeeded by the "pale face" or white settlers, have vied with many contending creatures for supremacy in this habitat of the animal kingdom, from the wildcat and black bear of a generation ago all the way back, according to old Cherokee tradition, to monsters of physical proportions that defy our present day imagination. These came upon the savage Red Man to destroy him and his villages, and would forever have dominated had not the brave warriors themselves driven them from the land! Aside from scraps of pottery and flints the Cherokees have left little to contribute to the history of the Smokies except in the form of myth and legend, but we know that he dwelt here for many moons. So, we leave him and his hectic past and take up with the white man that displaced him. In his book, "The Lure of the Great Smokies," Robert Lindsay Mason portrays the native white mountaineers of this region in a very complimentary fashion. He refers to them as "the Dissenters of yesterday— the valiant soldiers of a turbulent religious Renaissance of Europe and America," who, he says, "have laid aside their bloody rifles, but their well-worn Bibles bespeak bridal VEIL falls other battles just as vital and as faithful." Mr.
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