Robert Frank Jarrett
410 E. 32d Street
New York
1916
PREFACE.
Realizing that the memory of a nation is best keptaglow by its songs and the writings of its poets, I have been inspiredto write OCCONEECHEE, in order that the once powerful nation known asthe Cherokee may be preserved in mind, and that their myths, theirlegends and their traditions may linger and be transmitted to thenations yet to come.
Trusting that a generous people may hail with delightthe advent of this new work, I now dedicate its pages to all lovers ofmusic, poetry and fine art.
When you’ve read its pages give or lend
This volume to some good old friend.
The Author.[4]
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 citiesand visited many of the most important sections of the South, yet hasmade his principal home within the shadows of the rugged mountain peaksof his native and picturesque home land, the Old North State.
He was educated in the field and forest, by ripplingstream and rolling rill, studied in the open book of Nature and recitedto the Master of Destinies where the shadows of the everlasting hillslock hands with the sunshine of the valley.
He is a reader and student of the ancient writers andpoe