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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Copy righted Material Western Carolina University Hunter Library ROUND TOP, LECONTE, AND BALSAM The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ''Land of the Everlasting Hills' NATIVES of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina have for generations known and loved the Great Smoky Mountains, for even those of these people who until recent years had never explored their vast expanse, have viewed these lofty ranges from the hundreds of hills and ridges of the lower lands, and have gazed upon their magnificence from the highways and from their own homes. They have seen them enveloped in masses of fleecy clouds with only their peaks appearing above; they have watched them as they glistened with a mantle of snow or heavy frost in winter; they have seen the great giants of the virgin timber lands "up in the Smokies" don their new attire each spring; in summer they have paused under their great shadows or climbed to their lofty heights to stand in awe of the entrancing panorama; they have witnessed their appearance in gorgeous color in autumn, when no artist could adequately portray them. But these, said by geologists to be among the world's oldest mountains, constant reminders of the handiwork of the Creator of all Beauty, have been Waiting for thousands of years for the coming of the multitudes that inevitably find their way to gaze upon the wonders of Nature, wherever found—the coming of visitors and travelers from all sections of the nation to see their country's newly acquired sanctuary for the preservation and presentation of some of the world's most beautiful natural scenery— the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Land of the Everlasting Hills. The penetration of this region by foresters and adventurous seekers of the beautiful in Nature, the explorations of naturalists and scientists, establishing definite facts and disseminating information about the Smokies, the eventual building of roads leading through the area, and the advent of the automobile, whereby thousands of visitors have been enabled to approach the section, all combined to
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