In The Heart of the Alleghanies

University of North Carolina at Asheville D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections/University Archives Book register for: The Heart of the Alleghenies by Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup

Title	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.
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/zeigler/Default.htm
Creator	Wilbur Zeigler
Alt. Creator	Ben Grosscup
Subject Keyword	Allegheny Mountains ; Asheville, NC ; Hot Springs ; Abingdon, VA ; Battery Park Hotel ; Cloudland Hotel ; hotels ; travel and tourism ; Asheville, NC ; Eagle Hotel ; Swannanoa River ; French Broad River ; Marshall, NC ; Warm Springs Hotel ; minerals ; mountains ; rivers ; hunting ; fishing ; Paint Rock ; Hot Springs ; Arden Hotel ; Clingman's Dome ; Robbinsville, NC ; Waynesville, NC ; Hendersonville, NC ; Linville Falls ; Cherokee ; bears ; rattlesnakes ; William Holland Thomas ; Junaluska ; Younaguska ; Yellow Hill ; Western North Carolina Railroad ;
Subject LCSH	Zeigler, Wilbur Grosscup, Ben Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture Battery Park Hotel (Asheville, N.C.) North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works North Carolina -- Description and travel Asheville (N.C.) -- Description and travel Allegheny Mountains
Date	2004-20-04
Publisher	Raleigh, N.C., A. Williams & Co.; Cleveland, O., W.W. Williams [1883] ; [Digital Publisher] D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor
Type	Source type: text ;illustrations
Format	image/jpeg/text
Source	SpecColl F259 .Z46 1883
Language	EN=English
Relation	E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, UNCA ; The removal of the Cherokee Indians, by Harry Edgar Wheeler [microform] : with additional manuscripts / collected by Hiram C. Wilburne on the Cherokee Indians ; transmitted by John D. Gillespie [195-?] Contains information from text including: Letter of transmittal to H.C. Wilburne from H.E. Wheeler -- Contents of manuscript -- Introduction -- Birthday letter of Private Burnett -- Story of Tsali -- Traditional and historical accounts -- Mooney's story of Tsali -- Mullay census roll -- Military reports -- Col. Thomas Letter -- Historical claims -- Will West Long accounts -- Extracts from Sibbold Smith's manuscripts -- Zeigler and Grosscup (Balsam Ridge) -- Cherokee temprance pledge (Zeigler-Grosscup) -- DeSoto route, by H.C. Wilburne -- Resolution (Asbury Trail) -- Asbury and the Cattaloochee Trail -- History of Fontana, Swain County / by R.G. Wood -- Letter from H.C. Wilburne to J.R. Eaken (Feb. 19, 1937) -- Indian Gap Trail / by H.C. Wilburne -- Miscellaneous Cherokee notes / by H.C. Wilburne.
Coverage	1883 ; western North Carolina
Rights	Any display, publication or public use must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor	Special Collections purchase
Description	A 386 page book with one folding map. 21 cm. Includes advertising matter at the rear of the book. Describes the travel of the author and companion from Virginia and over the mountains into western North Carolina. Points of interest are described as well as the adventures of the journey. Many factual details on the western region of the state of North Carolina are included. "Alleghanies," is an early name for the Appalachians, and was used by many authors writing about the area in the mid to late-nineteenth century. These authors note that "Alleghany" is the old Indian word for "endless" and that this "endless chain of mountains finds its heart in the region we still refer to as western North Carolina. "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."
Acquisition	2003-05-01
Citation	The Heart of the Alleghenies, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by	Special Collections staff, 2004
Last update	2004-02-25
Biography	Wilbur G. Zeigler (1857- ? ) Little is known about Wilbur Gleason Zeigler. Born in Ohio, he was 26 when he wrote the Alleghanies book. He became a lawyer and wrote only two other books: The Story of the Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco (1906) and It was Marlowe: a Story of the Secret of Three Centuries, (1895), that sought to prove that Marlowe was the author of Shakespeare's works. Ben S. Grosscup Of Benjamin Grosscup we know scarcely more. He was also a lawyer, one year older than Zeigler, a Republican, a Mason and , apparently, a childhood friend of Zeigler. He practiced law in Washington state and died at the age of 77.

Contents	INTRODUCTION The Culmination of the Alleghanies -- Area -- The Grand Portal -- The Blue Ridge -- The Smokies -- Transverse Ranges of the Central Plateau -- Ancient Mountains	7
Chapter 1 pages 15-44	THE NATIVE MOUNTAINEER The "Moon-Eyed People -- Ottari and Erati -- Musical Names -- Legendary Superstitions -- The Devil's Footprints -- His Judgment Seat -- A Sacred Domain -- Cherokee's Paradise Gained -- Aboriginal Geography -- Sevier's Expedition -- Decline of the Tribe -- Younaguska -- A White Chief -- The Qualla Boundary -- A Ride Through the Reservation -- Yellow Hill -- Constitution and Faith of the Band -- Characteristics -- An Indian Maiden -- Soco Scenery	15
Chapter 2 pages 45-78	IN THE HAUNTS OF THE BLACK BEAR Bruins "Usin-Places" -- Pointers -- A Hunting Prty -- Stately Forests-- Wid Medford -- Sticking a Bear -- Trials of Camping-Out -- A Picture -- Frosted Mountains -- Amid the Firs -- Natural History -- In Close Quarters -- Scenic Features -- The Drive Begins -- An Ebon Mountain -- Judyculla [Judaculla] Old Field -- Calling in the Drivers -- A Snow Storm -- The Vale of Pigeon -- A Picturesque Party -- Through Laurel Thickets -- At Bay -- The Death Shot -- Sam's Knob -- Bear Traps -- An Old Hunter's Observation	45
Chapter 3 pages 79-106	THE VALLEY OF THE NOON-DAY SUN The Nantihala [Nantahala] -- Woodland Scenes -- Monday's -- Franklin -- Evening on the Little Tennessee -- The Alleghanies' Grandest Highway -- The Valley River Range -- Lonley Wilds -- The Prince of Sluggards -- Murphy -- A Swiss Landscape -- An Animated Guide-post -- At the "Hoe-Down" -- Apprehensions of Harm -- A jug in My Hands -- Pine Torches -- The Shooting Match -- "Hoss-Swoppers" -- Discouraging Comments -- The Fawning Politician -- Cat-Stairs -- The Anderson Roughs -- Campbell's Cabin -- NoWash-Basin -- The Devil's Chin -- Soapstone and Marble Quarries -- A Stinging Reception -- Deer -- A "Corn-cracker" -- Robbinsville	79
Chapter 4 pages 107-136	WITH ROD AND LINE The Tow-head Angler -- The Brook Trout -- Points -- The Paragon Month for Fishing -- Artificial Ponds -- Trip to the Toe -- Anti-Liquor --Rattlesnakes -- Mitchell's Peak -- A ghost Story -- In Weird Out-lines --Burnsville -- Pigeon River -- Cataluche [Catalooche] -- Mount Starling and its Black Brothers -- Whipping the Stream -- Striking a Bargain --An Urchin's Ideas -- Swain County Trout Streams -- In Jackson and Macon -- A Grand Cataract -- Trout, Buck and Panther -- In the Northwest Counties.	107
Chapter 5 pages137-166	AFTER THE ANTLERS The Heart of the Smokies -- Clingman's Dome -- Prospect from the Summit -- Mounted Sportsmen -- A Mountain Bug-Bear -- Charleston -- The Dungeon -- A Village Store-keeper -- Beautiful River Bends -- At the Roses' -- A Typical Mountain Cabin -- Quil's Wolf story -- A Quick Toilet -- The Footprints of Autumn -- Knowledge From Experience -- The Ridge Stand -- Buck Ague -- On Long Rock A Superb Shot -- The Buck Vanishes -- Acquitted Through Superstition -- The Hunter's Hearthstone	137
Chapter 6 pages 167-212	NATURAL RESOURCES The "Tar-Heel" Joke -- Tobacco -- Favorable Conditions for Gold Leaf -- A Ruinous Policy -- Hickory -- Shelby -- In Piedmont -- Old Field LAnd -- General Clingman's Story -- Watauga county -- Unequalled Pastures -- Prices of Lands -- Stock Raising -- The French Broad -- Tobacco Slopes -- Fair Figures -- Henderson and Transylvania -- The Pigeon Valley -- The Extreme Southwest Portion -- Character of Wild Range -- Horticulture -- The Thermal Zone -- Forests for Manufacturers --The Gold Zone -- Mica Mines --Corundum -- Iron Deposits -- The Cranberry Ore Bank -- Copper, Lead, Tin, and Silver -- Precious Stones	167
Chapter 7 pages 213-236	HISTORICAL RESUME Early Emigration -- Daniel Boone -- The "Pennsylvania Dutch" -- Conservatism -- The Revolutionary Forces -- The King's Mountain Battle -- "Nollichucky Jack" -- The Prisoner's Escape -- The State of Franklin -- The Pioneers -- Formation of Counties -- The Western North Carolina Railroad -- During the Late War -- RestlessMountains -- Scientific Exploration -- Calhoun's Observation -- The Tragedy of the Black Mountains -- Later Surveys -- Representatives of the Mountain People	213
Chapter 8 pages 237-278	IN THE SADDLE Mounting in Asheville -- A Surly Host -- Bat Cave -- Titanic Stone Cliffs -- chimney Rock Hotel -- The Pools -- A Sunset Scene -- The Shaking Bald -- The Spectre Cavalry Fight -- A Twighlight Gallop Through McDowell County -- Pleasant Gardens -- The Catawba Valleys -- On the Linville Range -- Table Rock and Hawk-Bill -- The Canon -- Innocents Abroad -- The Fox and the Pheasant -- Linville Falls -- A Dismal Woodland -- Travelling Families -- Grandfather Mountain -- The Ascent -- A Sunday Ride -- Blowing Rock -- Boone -- Valle Crucis -- Elk River -- The Cranberry Mines -- On the Roan -- Cloud-Land Hotel [Cloudland Hotel] --A Hermit's History -- Above a Thunder Storm -- Bakersville -- Traces of a Prehistoric People --The Sink-Hole and Ray Mica Mines -- Cremation -- Drawing Rein	237
Chapter 9 pages 279-332	BEYOND IRON WAYS Stage Riding -- The Driver's Story -- Waynesville -- Court Week -- Prescriptions for Spirit. Frument. -- Before the Bar -- An Out-Door Jury Room -- White Sulphur Springs -- A Night's Entertainment -- The Haunted Cabin -- A Panther Hunt --The Phantom Millers -- Light on the Mysteries -- Micadale -- Recollections -- Soco Falls -- Webster -- An Artist's Trials -- Above the Tuckasege [Tuckaseege] Cataract -- Hamburg -- A Cordial Invitation -- Cashier's Valley Whiteside -- A Coffee Toper -- Horse cove -- Golden Sands -- Ravenel's Magnificent Site -- Hints for the Mounted Tourist -- The Macon Highlands -- A Demon of the Abyss - A Region of Cascades and Cataracts -- Through Rabun Gap -- Clayton, Georgia -- The Falls of Tallulah -- An Iron Way	279
Chapter 10 pages 333-370	A ZIGZAG TOUR The Mountains as a Summer Resort -- On the Western North Carolina Railroad -- Sparkling Catawba Springs -- Glen Alpine -- Marion -- Asheville - Romantic Drives -- Turnpike -- Arden Park -- Hendersonville -- Flat Rock -- The Ante-War Period --Caesar's Head -- Brevard -- A "Moonshine" Expedition -- A Narrow Escape -- How Ilicit Whisky is Sold -- Along the French Broad -- An Excited Countryman -- Marshall -- Warm Springs -- Shut-in Gap -- Paint Rock -- A Picture of the Sublime	333
Tables pages 371-end	Tables of Altitude, Population, Area of counties, and Temperature	371
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