Armchair Explorations
General histories of the Great Smoky Mountains:
Elizabeth Skaggs Bowman, Land of High Horizons, 1938
Carlos C. Campbell, Birth of a National Park, 1960
Michael Frome, Strangers in High Places, 1980
Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, 1922
Horace Kephart, Journals at Western Carolina University
Robert Lindsay Mason, The Lure of the Great Smokies, 1927
Roderick Peattie, ed., The Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge, 1943
Laura Thornborough, The Great Smoky Mountains, 1937
Cherokee history:
James Adair, The History of the American Indians, 1775
William Bartram, Travels, 1792
John P. Brown, Old Frontiers, 1938
William H. Gilbert, The Eastern Cherokees, 1943
Henry T. Malone, Cherokees of the Old South, 1956
James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokees, 1900
Charles C. Royce, The Cherokee Nation of Indians, 1887
William L. Smith, The Story of the Cherokees, 1927
Henry Timberlake, Memoirs, 1765
Grace Steele Woodward, The Cherokees, 1963
Other historical works:
W. C. Allen, The Annals of Haywood County, 1935
John Preston Arthur, Western North Carolina, 1914
John C. Campbell, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, 1921
Wilma Dykeman, The French Broad, 1955
Allen H. Eaton, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, 1937
Paul Fink, “Early Explorers in the Great Smokies,” East Tennessee Historical Society Bulletin, 1933
Joseph S. Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore, 1960
Joseph S. Hall, Yarns and Tales from the Great Smokies, 1978
Archibald Henderson, The Conquest of the Old Southwest, 1920
Charles Lanman, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, 1849
Ruth W. O’Dell, Over the Misty Blue Hills: The Story of Cocke County, Tennessee, 1950
John Parris, articles in The Asheville Citizen-Times
Randolph Shields, “Cades Cove,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 1965
Randolph Shields, The Cades Cove Story, 1977
Foster A. Sondley, A History of Buncombe County, 1930
Wilbur Zeigler and Ben Grosscup, The Heart of the Alleghanies, 1883
Robert Woody, “Life on Little Cataloochee,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1950