Description:

This is a reprint of the NON-FICTION portions of Shepherd M. Dugger's Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain. These six chapter cover the physical geography of the area, and includes part of the diary of Andre Micheaux, French naturalist who explored much of Western North Carolina in the 1790s. It also includes Zebulon Vance's account of the search for the body of Dr. Elisha Mitchell. A table of elevations of mountains in Western NC is another section, and it concludes with a slim dictionary of Cherokee words. Fully indexed.