Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic Lake

by Robert Frank Jarrett

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

PART I

THE CHEROKEE

“I know not how the truth may be,

I tell the tale as ’twas told to me.”