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