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| Front Cover | WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA |
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| page 1 | [Frontispiece] "The Heart of the Alleghanies or Western North Carolina: Comprising its topography, history resources, people, narratives, incidents, and pictures of travel adventures in hunting and fishing and legends of its wildernesses. By Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup. With Map and Illustrations. Raleigh, NC, Alfred Williams & Co.; Cleveland, O. William W. Williams |
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| page 2 | Verso: Copyright, 1883. By Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup | ||
| page 3 | Contents: Introduction The Native Mountaineers In the Haunts of the Black Bear The Valley of the Noon-Day-Sun |
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| page 4 | Contents, cont. With Rod and Line After the Antlers Natural Resources Historical Resume In the Saddle |
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| page 5 | Contents, cont. Beyond Iron Ways A Zigzag Tour Tables of Altitude, Population, Area of counties, and Temperature |
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| page 6 | [List of Illustrations] |  |
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| INTROD. | INTRODUCTION The Culmination of the Alleghanies -- Area -- The Grand Portal -- The Blue Ridge -- The Smokies -- Transverse Ranges of the Central Plateau -- Ancient Mountains |
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| page 7 | "The great mountain system that begins in that part of Canada south of the St. Lawrence, and under the name of the Alleghanies, or Appalachians, extends southward for 1,300 miles, dying out in the Georgia and Alabama foot-hills, attains its culmination in North Carolina. ... Alleghany is the old Indian word, signifying "endless." |  |
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| page 8 | "John C. Calhoun, 1825 ; Nolichucky ;Watauga ; French Broad ; Big Pigeion ; Little Tennessee ; Hiawassee ;Yadkin ; Broad ; Chatooga ; Blue Ridge Mountians ... |  |
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| page 9 | "The counties are 25 in number ... Smoky Mountains ; Stone Mountains ; Iron Mountians ; Bald Mountian ; Great Smoky ; Unaka ; Frog Mountains ... |  |
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| page 10 | "The eastern rampart range ...Blue Ridge ; Catawba ; Broad rivers ... |  |
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| page 11 | "The Smoky mountains present similar characteristics ... Mitchell's Peak ; Balsam range ; Yellow mountain ; Black, Newfound, Balsam, Cowee, Nantihala, Valley River mountains |  |
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| page 12 | "Next comes the widest and longest plain of the mountain section -- the valley of the French Broad... It is of this country -- the Heart of the Alleghanies -- that in the following pages we have treated in as full, concise, and entertaining a manner as we could conceive and carry into execution..." |  |
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| page 13 | [Illustration] UNAKA KANOOS |  |
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