Record #:

15736

Author(s):

Lanman, Charles

Abstract:

In two letters from his 1848 book, Letters from the Alleghenies, Lanman recounts two Cherokee legends about Black Mountain, later renamed Mt. Mitchell, and in the second letter tells of a strange man, named David Greer, who lived in a cave high on Bald Mountain fifty years before.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 26, May 1955, p10-11, il

Subject(s):

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895