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those subjects, which has since gone through many editions. Today, though 40 years have passed, it is considered by outdoorsmen as the best and most comprehensive guide yet written. The mountain people and their mode of life, at the time little influenced by contact with the outside, intrigued him. Living with them and accepted as one of themselves, he studied them with the eye of a trained observer and then wrote of them with a sympathetic approach that could be gained only by one deeply in love with his subject. The projected book which Mr. Chable mentions as "The Highlands of Dixie" appeared in 1913 (revised 1922) under the title of "Our Southern Highlanders." Like his book on woodcraft, it still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject. In my files are letters from "Kep," as he was affectionately known to many of us, written before 1920, advocating the establishment of a national park in the Great Smokies, as the only means of forever preserving their natural beauty and grandeur. When the movement to that end was inaugurated, he threw himself into it with all his energy, speaking, writing countless articles, enlisting the support of his wide circle of admirers—doing everything in his power to bring the dream to a reality. It was in recognition of his services then, as well as of his writings, that one of the higher peaks of the Smokies was christened "Mt. Kephart." The idea of The Appalachian Trail captured his interest from the first, and he did much to give it publicity, to help determine the routing of the southern portion, and to enlist local volunteer workers. At the time of his tragic death he was preparing to attend the Trail Conference held at Gatlinburg in 1931. My last letter from him reads, "Illness prevented me from being at Skyland, but I'll be at Gatlinburg if I have to come in an ambulance." Chable's account of the difficulties encountered en route to the top of Clingmans Dome are not in anywise exaggerated. Well do I remember that afternoon in 1927, 17 years after his visit, when Captain Diehl and I laid down our packs on top of the Dome, with the idea of a pleasant stroll over to Andrews Bald, to enjoy the outlook over the valleys of the Oconaluftee and Tuckaseegee. Rough country and dense growth were no strangers to us, but after half a mile of struggling through a most unhallowed wilderness we turned back, deciding that no scenery, no matter how marvelous, was worth the man-killing labor of pushing further through that tangle. LABOR DAY AT ELIZABETH FURNACE By Anna Jespersen Saturday morning, August 31, at the crack of a rosy dawn, 35 people were greeted at the parking area at the rear of the P. A. T. C. Headquarters by the excursion leader, Wendell Robinson. Bulging knapsacks, tents, and bedrolls of every description were packed into a truck and trailer that also carried other camp equipment and provisions. These vehicles plus six privately owned and driven automobiles made up the caravan that soon got under way to Elizabeth Furnace—that beautiful Shangri-La nestled in the Massanutten in George Washington National Forest. By middle morning the caravan drew up at the outskirts of Front Royal, where all got out and stretched their legs and had a cup of coffee before proceeding on the next lap of the journey. By late forenoon the party drew into the general area of their destination. Here they were met by Barty Facchina, who with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hess, Charlie Thomas, and Glenn Skaggs had driven out the previous evening to stake a claim to the camp site. Barty directed us through the woods and into the camp ground, a spacious amphitheater with lofty tree-covered mountains on all sides and the babbling Passage Creek running past the "kitchen door."
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This 1946 bulletin by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club includes (pages 104-108) a 1910 letter to Horace Kephart from A.A. Chable who wrote of his “tramping, camping, and mountain climbing” in the Smokies. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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