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