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Great Smoky Mountains

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  • "Great Smoky Mountains" is a 32-page brochure produced by the North Carolina Park Commission and collected by park promoter, Horace Kephart. The booklet is illustrated with many photographs by Thompson Brothers Photography and by George Masa (under the name of Plateau Studios and Asheville-Biltmore Film Co.), with descriptive captions by individuals associated with the park movement. The main essay, “Our National Park,” makes a case for a park in the Smokies due to the diversity of the region’s natural resources. While the writer mentions that the “picturesque” inhabitants and their “ancient log cabins” will be an “asset” to the park, in reality, inhabitants were moved out of the area and their dwellings destroyed.