Ah, the Whispering Bow—yes, it appears in a handful of 18th‑century cartographic notes and a few folktale anthologies that slipped under the library’s dust cover. The only contemporary reference I’ve found is a marginal note in a 1763 logbook by a surveyor named Halley. He describes a “bow made of elderwood” that, when drawn, produced a sound so pure it was said to hush the wind in the valley. No physical evidence, though, and the bow itself vanished in the same year the logbook was filed. So, it’s a tantalizing story with no hard proof—exactly the sort of mystery that makes history feel alive.

It’s the quiet sort of legend that lingers when the wind is right. Keep tracing those ridges; sometimes the line between fact and myth is thinner than a leaf blade. Good luck, and may the valley’s hush be a story worth recording.