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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • I'isgah National Forest, the Nantahala National Forest, and other large national forest areas in the Southern Appalachians. Following the passage by the Congress of the Weeks Bill, the effort to create a national park in the Southern mountains lay dormant, but the advocates of the plan did not forget their original objective. As the years passed the park idea gained more advocates, including the powerful support of Horace Kephart (1862-1931), of Bryson City, N. C, auther of a number of notable books on the out-of-doors. In the summer °f 1904, Kephart, his health broken, came to the mountains °f North Carolina looking for a primitive forest where he could build up strength anew and indulge his lifelong fondness for hunting, fishing, and exploring new ground. He became thoroughly familiar with the Great Smokies and nine years after his arrival in them his book, Our Southern High- landers, was published. Anakcesta Knob, looking north from near Nnofouml Gap. 81
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