# Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Author: Mooney, James, 1861-1921

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45634

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Myths+of+the+Cherokee+Extract+from+the+Nineteenth+Annual+Report+of+the+Bureau+of+American+Mooney&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The elk--This animal ranged in eastern Carolina in 1700. "The elk is a monster of the venison sort. His skin is used almost in the same nature as the buffelo's [sic].... His flesh is not so sweet as the lesser deer's. His hams exceed in weight all creatures which the new world affords. They will often resort and feed with the buffelo, delighting in the same range as they do" (Lawson, Carolina, p. 203).

## Chapters

- [volume VIII, page 71,1864, the last two wild buffalo known in Ohio](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-of-the-cherokee-extract-from-the-nineteenth-annual-report-e80d3764/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part 1, and The Last of Our Cannibals, in Harper's Magazine, August,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/myths-of-the-cherokee-extract-from-the-nineteenth-annual-report-e80d3764/chapters/2/index.md)