NC Gazetteer

Cold Mountain

Also known as: Da-tsu-la-gun-yi, Da-tsula-gun-yi
A mountain in Haywood County
S Haywood County, is parallel to Little East Fork Pigeon River. Alt. 6,030. According to Cherokee legend, some children played on a large rock at the foot of the mountain, and their footprints are said to be there still. Their name for the mountain was Da-tsula-gun-yi, meaning "where they made tracks." Eponymous novel by Charles Frazier in 1997 and later film led tourists to seek out site.