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Correspondence: George Kephart to Michael Frome

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  • enjjy a free life in the open air, the thrill of explor- *• 'ing new ground, the joys of the chase, and the man's ■ • game of matching my woodcraft against the forces of nature, with no help from servants or hired guides." He found this Back of Beyond in- a deserted cabin belonging'-to' an abandoned copper mine in the settlement'of Hazel Creek, "far up ' under the lee of those Smoky Mountains that I.had learned so little about"; and, with due permission,' he made his solitary home in that cabin for three years. At first, his chief interest was less in the people of the region than in-the mountains themselves: ""- in that mysterious beckoning hinterland which rose right back of my chimney and"spread upward, outward* almost to three cardinal points of the compass, mile after mile, hour after hour of lusty climbing - an Eden still unpeopled and unspoiled." ' . But he had chosen his therapy well; and, with returning health and renewed enthusiasm, his interest turned especially to those strange mountain people who were his neighbors and associates. Though he naturally classed as a "furriner" among them, 'Kephart, as a resident observer with an exceptional gift of empathy/ came to understand and appreciate them and their ways as no •outsider possibly could. "No outsider can discern and measure those powerful but obscure motives, those rooted prejudices, that . constitute their real difference from other men, until he has •lived v/ith the people a long time on terms of intimacy." (- H.K.) ' In 1907, he left Hazel Creek and moved into Bryson City, "the county seat of Swain County, North Carolina, on the border of the -territory which eventually came to be' the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Then began the period of his most intense • publishing output. Kephart's early papers had appeared-in Harper's and Cassier's magazines and various other sources; but the .vast-majority of his articles of this period were published in • "Outing" magazine, to which he was a regular and prolific contributor. And then, there were the books: "The Book of Camping and Woodcraft" was followed by Kephart's "Camp Cookery," in 1910, and "Sporting Firearms," in 1912, and "Our Southern Highlanders," ,in 1913. "Camping and Woodcraft" and this last-named work are the two by which he is most widely known and best remembered. "Our Southern Highlanders" is a fascinating and painstakingly impartial presentation of the mountaineers: their character, their historical origins, their economics, their dialect. The author devotes, special attention to- those two most publicized ' •aspects of mountain life: moonshining and feuding. A new and revised edition of this book, with three added chapters, was published by Macmillan in 1922; it is still in print today, and~is regularly stocked for sale at the reception centers .of the Great •Smoky Mountain-National Park Service. * The fairness of its approach and the simplicity of its style are both implicit in the footnote, to one of those added chapters, in which the author mentions .with pardonable pride that: "The native mountaineers often refer to it simply as 'that book1." '.'. • In 1915 and '16, Kephart edited for his publishers reprint editions of half-a-dozen volumes of outdoor adventure narratives: three works by George Frederick Huxton, "Adventures in Mexico," "In the Old West," and "Wild Life In the Rocky Mountains," one by Slisha Kent Kane, "Adrift In the Arctic Ice Pack," and zvro anthologies, "Captives Among the Indiana," and "Castaways and Cru-
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