Western Carolina University WCU University of North Carolina Asheville UNCA

Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (21) View all
University of North Carolina Asheville (6) View all
WCU - Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

items 3 of 4 items
  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11368.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
Item 2 - Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-11367.jp2

Origin of the name: Great Smoky Mountains

GSMNP_10184_18_01_02
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).

  • -3- Fired by this roseate vision of conquest and profit, English traders soon began to traffic with the Cherokees. But it could not have taken them long to learn that the Blue Ridge was a rampart harder to eross than Jtks any Chinese wall, and that beyond it, to the westward, was a labyrinth of still higher and more rugged ranges that would m"mr "stoop" to anybody. It will be noted that the term Appalachian, as applied to the Highland South, goes back at least to the time of Wytfliet. The early writers and map-makers spelled it, every on® to suit himself, just as they did names in general, and eommen. words as well. It is derived from. Apalaohee, the name of a tribe that Be Soto found in northern Florida, and, as the Spanish considered that their new-found land of Florida extended indefinitely northward, the term covered a lot of territory. In the Colonial Poo rth Carolina are several references to the "Cherokee Hountains," whieh arefiereln declared "impassable." By this name was meant what we now call the Blue Ridge, In 188S, Henry Woodward obtained from the Lords Proprietors a commission for inland exploration in whieh are recited the benefits to be expected from having "the Inlands of our Province of Carolina well discovered and what they doe oontaine and also a passage over the Apalateans Mountain*® found ottt"," la 1690, a noted adventurer, James Moore, secretary of the colony of South Carolina, succeeded in making a journey, as he reported, "over the Apalathean Mountains ... as well out of curiosity to see what sort of Country we might have in Land as to find out and make new and further discovery of Indian Trade." lie got far enough up into the mountains to be within twenty miles of where Spaniards wore engaged in mining and smelting with bellows and furnaces, or so his Indian guides Informed him. He found specimens of ores that he sent to England for assay* but, owing to difficulties with the Cherokees, he says he was not able to proceed "to the place which I had gen to see." Sometime within the next six years the Smokies probably ware reached, from the opposite direction, hy a Canadian eoureur de hois, one Jean Couture. He had deserted from lew France and had gone o"mr to the Indians, seeking connection with
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-11368.jp2