Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney

For the more important legends localized in Tennessee see the stories The Hunter in the Dakwa', The Nest of the Tla'nuwa, The Removed Townhouses, The Haunted Whirlpool, Ûñtsaiyi', and U`tlûñ'ta. Buffalo Track rock: This rock, of which the Indian name is now lost, is indefinitely mentioned as located southwest from Cumberland gap, on the northern border of the state. According to Wafford, it was well known some eighty years ago to the old Cherokee hunters, who described it as covered with deep impressions made by buffalo running along the rock and then butting their heads, as though in mad fury, against a rock wall, leaving the prints of their heads and horns in the stone. Chattanooga: This city, upon Tennessee river, near the entrance of the creek of the same name in Hamilton county, was incorporated in