The Project Gutenberg eBook of Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic Lake
Title: Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic Lake
Author: Robert Frank Jarrett
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Language: English
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410 E. 32d Street
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1916
PREFACE.
Realizing that the memory of a nation is best kept aglow by its songs and the writings of its poets, I have been inspired to write OCCONEECHEE, in order that the once powerful nation known as the Cherokee may be preserved in mind, and that their myths, their legends and their traditions may linger and be transmitted to the nations yet to come.
Trusting that a generous people may hail with delight the advent of this new work, I now dedicate its pages to all lovers of music, poetry and fine art.
When you’ve read its pages give or lend
This volume to some good old friend.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR.
Robert Frank Jarrett was born in Asheville, N. C., on July 21st, 1864, and while having resided in other states and cities and visited many of the most important sections of the South, yet has made his principal home within the shadows of the rugged mountain peaks of his native and picturesque home land, the Old North State.
He was educated in the field and forest, by rippling stream and rolling rill, studied in the open book of Nature and recited to the Master of Destinies where the shadows of the everlasting hills lock hands with the sunshine of the valley.
He is a reader and student of the ancient writers and poets of all ages, singer of the old songs, lover of the new;
Servant in official capacity for many years of National, State and Civic governments; humble worker with the busy toilers, and writer of prose and verse from earliest childhood;
Author of “Back Home and Other Poems,” published in 1911, and many other manuscripts not yet published.
Married to Sallie C. Wild, of Franklin, N. C., on Dec. 25th, 1892. For twenty years a resident of Dillsboro, N. C., where orchard and field and dense deep forests have inspired and impelled him on.
CONTENTS
- Page
- Part I. The Cherokee, 7
- Part II. Occoneechee, 21
- Part III. Myths of the Cherokee, 127
- Part IV. Glossary of Cherokee Words, 197
ILLUSTRATIONS
- Portrait of Robert Frank Jarrett, Frontispiece
- Tuckaseigee Falls, above Dillsboro, 9
- Along Scott’s Creek, below Balsam, 21
- Sunset from Mt. Junaluska, 26
- Lake Junaluska, near Waynesville, 26
- A Glimpse of the Craggies, 37
- From Top of Chimney Rock, 37
- Graybeard Mountain, 37
- Chimney Top, 37
- Upper Catawba Falls, Esmeralda, 43
- Occoneechee Falls, Jackson County, 43
- In the Cherokee Country, 43
- Whitewater Falls, 43
- The Balsam Mountains in Jackson Co., 51
- North from Sunset Rock, Tryon Mt., 51
- Balsam Mountains, 67
- From Bald Rock, 67
- Lower Cullasaja Falls, 73
- Mount Pisgah, 77
- Indian Mound, Franklin, N. C., 77
- Tallulah Falls, Ga., 81
- Whiteside Mountain, 91
- Tennessee River, above Franklin, 99
- Lake Toxaway, 99
- Tomb of Junaluska, Robbinsville, 107
- Where the Serpent Coiled, 107
- Harvesting at Cullowhee, N. C., 117
- Craggy Mountains from near Asheville, 117
- Sequoya, 129
- John Ax, the Great Story Teller, 129
- Everglades of Florida, 129
- Tuckaseigee River, 139
- Kanuga Lake, 153
- Lake Fairfield, 153
- Pacolet River, Hendersonville, 153
- A Cherokee Indian Ball Team, 171
- The Pools, Chimney Rock, 171
- French Broad River, 185
- Broad River, 185
- From the Toxaway, 191
- Chimney Top Gap, 191
- Chimney Rock, 197
- Occonestee Falls, 237
- Linville Falls, 237
- Triple Falls, Buck Forest, 237
- High Falls, Buck Forest, 284
- Melrose Falls, Tryon, N. C., 284