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Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

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  • Copy (Compositor, please follow copy exactly as regards spelling, ete.i for the' quotations are true to the old-fashioned originals. ... H, K.) THE GREAT SMOXT KTWTAIIS Date of this paper seemed Origin of the Heme to be 1930. see p. 7. By Horace Kephart.-.. Four years ago,, in the magazine- ark, ,1 stated that nobody knew how the master chain of the Appalachian sontanie system got its strikingly appropriate name, the Oreat Smoky Mountains. One might naturally suppose that the term was simply an English translation of an ancient Indian name. But I have asked .several old Cherokees if this be so, and they are not of one mind about it themselves. Soma says "Mo ■- our present name for the range as a whole is Giuk-shue-tce, meaning Smoke % hut it is modern and we probably got it from the whites." Others sayt "Cluk-shus-tee ie oldi for my grandfather called the Smokies by that name." The English name Smoky, -as applied to this range, goes back, in official documents, as far as 1789, as I shall presently show. Therefore the testimony of a grandfather, or great-grandfather, nowadays, is not conclusive, (ha the other hand, there ie pretty strong evidence that the ancient Cherokees, although they had names for separate peaks and ridges, did not give any inclusive name to the Great Smoky system as a whole. For example* not long ago, while I was looking up another and unrelated matter, I ease hy chance on ths following passage in. a hook hy an English traveler, 0. W. Featherstoahaugh, published in 1837 and entitled "An Excursion through the Slave States and a Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor." His book was written in the form of a diary. ** Under date of August 6, 1SS7, Featherstonhaugh records that he was guest of the famous Cherokee chief Jolaa Ross, at a dinner given at a country meeting-place called Red Clay, in Tennessee, at which was gathered a large number
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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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