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Great Smoky Mountains

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  • ! (^Thompson Bros. emite, and then visits the Smoky Mountains region, comers the feeling of the dis- hand ?' is the involuntary exclamation. Why indeed I"—Southern Life. young Cherokee madly playing that game. By general consent, the train halted until the fun was over. Like the mountaineers, our Indians will retain possession of their abodes within the Park, and —perhaps—enjoy their new dignity, if such it is, of being objects of interest to millions of tourists. Millions literally. The location of the Park vouches for those millions.' With the sole exception of a little eight-mile tract on Mount Desert Island, there is no national park east of the Mississippi, though three-quarters of our people live east of the Mississippi —■ more than 75,000,000 — the bulk of whom will be able to reach our new Park without difficulty. It is halfway between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, halfway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf, halfway between New York and New Orleans, halfway between Cincinnati and Charleston, S. C. Magnificent will be the approaches to our enchanting new playground. Tourists from Chicago and Cincinnati will come by way of Cumberland Gap, White Top Mountain, Doe River \ "Growing when Columbus discovered America, and still very much alive."—Chicago Daily News.
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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.