"Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)" . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . . . . "When a mysterious (though familiar looking ...) stranger arrives on Deep Creek, he immediately encounters a vast cadre of characters that includes earnest mountaineers, a murderous land baron, a family of treacherous ne'er-do-wells, a beautiful botanist, a Cherokee Indian chief, and a witch. A search for hidden treasures leads a community to erupt into violence while the hero comes to realize that what he truly seeks may be more animal than mineral\"--Publisher description."@en . "Smoky mountain magic"@en .