Choestoe

Biography (and partly autobiography) of Edward Leander Shuler (1883-1955), son of William Jackson Shuler and Elizabeth Townsend. He was born and raised in Choestoe (Cherokee for "where the rabbits dance") in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeast Georgia. Two of the highest mountains in the Appalachian chain between Maine and Georgia lie in the Choestoe district they are Brasstown Bald and Blood Mountains. Edward Leander Shuler married Laura Collins in 1905. As he tells his story, he also gives biographical sketches of his father and mother, William Jackson Shuler and Elizabeth (Townsend) Shuler. Includes a social history of the Choestoe area, including its beginning as part of Cherokee lands before the "Trail of Tears" dispossessed them.