The “Moon-eyed” People—Ottari and Erati—Musical Names—Legendary Superstitions—The Devil’s Footprints—His Judgment Seat—A Sacred Domain—Cherokee’s Paradise Gained—Aboriginal Geography—Sevier’s Expedition—Decline of the Tribe—Younaguska—A White Chief—The Qualla Boundary—A Ride Through the Reservation—Yellow Hill—Constitution and Faith of the Band—Characteristics—An Indian Maiden—Soco Scenery
Bruin’s “Usin’-Places”—Pointers—A Hunting Party—Stately Forests—Wid Medford—Sticking a Bear—Trials of Camping-Out—A Picture—Frosted Mountains—Amid the Firs—Natural History—In Close Quarters—Scenic Features—The Drive Begins—An Ebon Mountain—Judyculla Old Field—Calling In the Drivers—A Snow Storm—The Vale of Pigeon—A Picturesque Party—Through Laurel Thickets—At Bay—The Death Shot—Sam’s Knob—Bear Traps—An Old Hunter’s Observation
The Nantihala—Woodland Scenes—Monday’s—Franklin—Evening on the Little Tennessee—The Alleghanies’ Grandest Highway—The Valley River Range—Lonely Wilds—The Prince of Sluggards—Murphy—A Swiss Landscape—An Animated Guide-post—At the “Hoe-Down”—Apprehensions of Harm—A Jug in My Hands—Pine Torches—The Shooting Match—“Hoss-Swoppers”—Discouraging Comments—The Fawning Politician—Cat-Stairs—The Anderson Roughs—Campbell’s Cabin—No Wash-Basin—The Devil’s Chin—Soapstone and Marble Quarries—A Stinging Reception—Deer—A “Corn-cracker”—Robbinsville
The Tow-head Angler—The Brook Trout—Points—The Paragon Month for Fishing—Artificial Ponds—Trip to the Toe—Anti-Liquor—Rattlesnakes—Mitchell’s Peak—A Ghost Story—In Weird Out-lines—Burnsville—Pigeon River—Cataluche—Mount Starling and its Black Brothers—Whipping the Stream—Striking a Bargain—An Urchin’s Ideas—Swain County Trout Streams—In Jackson and Macon—A Grand Cataract—Trout, Buck and Panther—In the Northwest Counties
The Heart of the Smokies—Clingman’s Dome—Prospect from the Summit—Mounted Sportsmen—A Mountain Bug-Bear—Charleston—The Dungeon—A Village Storekeeper—Beautiful River Bends—At the Roses’—A Typical Mountain Cabin—Quil’s Wolf story—A Quick Toilet—The Footprints of Autumn—Knowledge from Experience—The Ridge Stand—Buck Ague—On Long Rock—A Superb Shot—The Buck Vanishes—Acquitted Through Superstition—The Hunter’s Hearthstone
Early Emigration—Daniel Boone—The “Pennsylvania Dutch”—Conservatism—The Revolutionary Forces—The King’s Mountain Battle—“Nollichucky Jack”—The Prisoner’s Escape—The State of Franklin—The Pioneers—Formation of Counties—The Western North Carolina Railroad—During the Late War—Restless Mountains—Scientific Explorations—Calhoun’s Observation—The Tragedy of the Black Mountains—Later Surveys—Representatives of the Mountain People
Mounting in Asheville—A Surly Host—Bat Cave—Titanic Stone Cliffs—Chimney Rock Hotel—The Pools—A Sunset Scene—The Shaking Bald—The Spectre Cavalry Fight—A Twilight Gallop Through McDowell County—Pleasant Gardens—The Catawba Valleys—On the Linville Range—Table Rock and Hawk-Bill—The Canon—Innocents Abroad—The Fox and the Pheasant—Linville Falls—A Dismal Woodland—Traveling Families—Grandfather Mountain—The Ascent—A Sunday Ride—Blowing Rock—Boone—Valle Crucis—Elk River—The Cranberry Mines—On the Roan—Cloud-Lan
