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Correspondence: George Kephart to Michael Frome

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  • "Insido of ten years the little book (Camping and Woodcraft) wont through seven editions, grew to 900 pages, and was recognized as the standard work on the subject. It would endure long after Kephart's passing ~ with its twentieth printing in i960," "Camping and Woodcraft" by Horace Kephart, is still selling today, sixty years after its first printing! And at page 153 Y°n note: "Thus, in 1913 Our Southorn Highlanders appeared and sold 10,000 copies in the first edition. It has since gone through revisions of Kephart's own doing and seven printings oy 1957." Are you aware of a later, paperback, edition that appeared in I963? I trust this letter makes it clear why I am shocked by your reference to me as a source of information. Ihy I assure you that I do not request an acknowledgment. Short of libel or slander, each man lias a perfect right to express his opinion of another man, Tno Kephart name can withstand the shock of your published opinion of ono of its members. I therefore wish you every success in your future as a writer. As you nature, you will probably learn to handle situations with greater finesse, and deeper understanding tlian is displayed in Chapter XII of your recent book. To paraphrase your comment at page 151, you may even look back on that chaptor, with regret, as "sloppy work" not worthy of your true abilities. In retrospect, you may find a precedent, worthy of emulation, in my father's sense of tolerance and understanding when called upon to discuss the misfortunes of his fellow-man. Perhaps you will learn that you should have looked deeper into the reasons that make Kephart's name "...figure boldly in any studios of the Smokies." Deeper research might have given you a better understanding of my father's personal sacrifice of selfish interest, as he labored for the creation of a national, park — a sacrifice that is suggested in the letter to my wife and me which you misquoted so ineptly at page 159. While we were living in Bangor, Haine, he wrote us: "The long and difficult taslc of surveying, examining titles, estimating values, etc., of the Smoky Mt, Hat'l JFark lands is finished. And now, at last, the actual purchase or condemnation of the whole area xri.ll proceed to a finish. It was a big undertaking, and beset with discouragements of all sorts; but we've Tvonl ... Within two years we will have good roads into the Smokies, and then — well, then, I'll get out. But I hope it won't be that long before I get to Bangor for that little visit I'm promising myself.»'
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This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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