Western Carolina University WCU University of North Carolina Asheville UNCA

Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (17) View all
University of North Carolina Asheville (3) View all
Text Back to search results
WCU - Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

3 of 4 items 2 of 4 items
  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11367.jp2
Copyright Download
Item 1 - Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11366.jp2

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

GSMNP_10184_18_01_01
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11367.jp2

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

GSMNP_10184_18_01_02
Item 3 - Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11368.jp2

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

GSMNP_10184_18_01_03
Item 4 - Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11369.jp2

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

GSMNP_10184_18_01_04
Item
?

Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).

  • -a- of representative Cherokee from the surrounding territory. The author states that "Being desirous of learning whether the Cherokees had any distinct name for the system of ridges which now goes by the name of the Alleghany or Appalachian Mountains, to oblige me, he (Lewis Ross, brother of the chief) interrogated souse very ancient Cherokees? hut not one of them had ever heard of their having a distinct name. The warpath whieh their ancestors used in crossing them to fight the Mengwce, or Five nations (Iroquois), had a particular name* xtsBWsaaKpefck hut they know of no other, neither did they know anything of the words Alleghany or Appalachy.** Going back, now, to the beginning of our own records of this and adjoining territory? the oldest map 1 have seen that purports to show anything of the Carolina and Tennessee mountains is one entitled "Florida et Apaleh©,,, by Comely Wyfcflist, published in Louvain* in 16t7» It locates, mostly at random, several of the Indian towns mentioned in the ohronielas of D» Soto*s expedition in 1540, and indicates a lot of mountains, sketched by guesswork, in the wild interior that we nmr eall the Southern Appalachian region. Hone of these mountains are named onWyfcfliet's map. la 1870 the German traveler John Lederer followed an old Indian trading path from the falls of James liver, Virginia, to the Catawba country in South Carolina. Although he did not cross the Blue Ridge, as Be Soto had done, still he heard a good deal about the mountains of the Cherokee territory. He published a book about his travels, in Latin, with a map that was largely fanciful in so far as western Worth Carolina and eastern Tennessee are concerned. Lederer*s book was translated into English by Sir William Talbot, in 1672, Talbot's enthusiasm was excited by the supposition that the mountains did not ©xtend as far south as they actually do, and he went on to say that from Lederer*s account "it is clear that the long-looked-for discovery of the Indian Sea (Pacific Ocean) does nearly approach? and Carolina ... presumes that the accomplishment of this glorious Dcslgne is reserved for her. In order to which, the Apalatae-aa Mountains (though like the prodigious Wall that divides China from Tartary, they deny Virginia passage into the West Continent) stoop to your lordship's Dominions, and lay open a frospeet into unlimited Empires."
Object
?

Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).

Related items

Part of Collection

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...

View collection Read introduction
panzoom image
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11367.jp2