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The Maid of the Mystic Lake
BY
ROBERT FRANK JARRETT
Author of “Back Home and Other Poems”
THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS
410 E. 32d Street
New York
1916
PREFACE.
Realizing that the memory of a nation is best kept aglow by its songs and the writings of its poets, I have been inspired to write OCCONEECHEE, in order that the once powerful nation known as the Cherokee may be preserved in mind, and that their myths, their legends and their traditions may linger and be transmitted to the nations yet to come.
Trusting that a generous people may hail with delight the advent of this new work, I now dedicate its pages to all lovers of music, poetry and fine art.
When you’ve read its pages give or lend
This volume to some good old friend.
The Author.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR.
Robert Frank Jarrett was born in Asheville, N. C., on July 21st, 1864, and while having resided in other states and cities and visited many of the most important sections of the South, yet has made his principal home within the shadows of the rugged mountain peaks of his native and picturesque home land, the Old North State.
He was educated in the field and forest, by rippling stream and rolling rill, studied in the open book of Nature and recited to the Master of Destinies where the shadows of the everlasting hills lock hands with the sunshine of the valley.
He is a reader and student of the ancient writers and poets of all ages, singer of the old songs, lover of the new;
Servant in official capacity for many years of National, State and Civic governments; humble worker with the busy toilers, and writer of prose and verse from earliest childhood;
Author of “Back Home and Other Poems,” published in 1911, and many other manuscripts not yet published.
Married to Sallie C. Wild, of Franklin, N. C., on Dec. 25th, 1892. For twenty years a resident of Dillsboro, N. C., where orchard and field and dense deep forests have inspired and impelled him on.
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
