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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Mm who, in 1899, organized at Asheville the Appalachian National l'«'k\ Association which made the first concerted effort lor the establishment of <■■ national park in the Southern Highlands. Before settlers began going into the countrv of the Cherokees and penetrating the valleys and coves' of the Great Smokies, scientists visited the region. "It was the botanist," said Horace Kephart in Our Southern Highlanders, "who discovered this Eden for us." One of the first botanists, if not the first, to visit the Great Smoky region was William Bartram. His trip of exploration was in 1776 and he described his findings in a book published in 1791. Then came other botanists.' A numbet of these men described their findings in books and scientific articles. As a result, the fame of the Southern Appalachians as a floral paradise spread far and wide. Students of geology ami geography also came. In the Great Smokies there are three noted peaks around which clings the fame of three scientists: Mt. Guyot. named fo« Arnold Guyot; Mt. LeConte, which honors Joseph LeConte: 72
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