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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Knowing and loving the Great Smokies, Kephart realize! something should be done to save them for posterity 'This made nun a staunch advocate of a national park in The Great .Smokies. He translated his feelings and those of other persons into telling words and phrases and his messages reached into far places. He became known as the Apostle of the Great Smokies. Other authors took up the idea, including Margaret \V. MOrtey. in -lhe Carolina Mountains (1913), she said of the Great Smok.es: "And over these splendid slopes, one sees in imagination the protecting arm of the new national park reach out, as it soon will, to save them forever from the power of the destroyer." The people of East Tennessee also took up the idea. In 192., Mrs. Willis P. Davis, of Knoxville, Tenn., visualized sue. a park for East Tennessee while admiring the beauty and grandeur of the Yellowstone National Park in the West. ane promptly voiced the thought to her husband. "Why these mountains here are no more beautiful than our mountains at home. Why couldn't we have a national park?" she asked MT. Uavis became enthusiastic over the idea and, upon his return to Knoxvi]le, he mentioned it to a number of men and later^called a meeting in the office of D. C. Webb, an attorney. At this meeting, in 192,5, Mr. Webb, Cowan Rodgers. Col. I n ■£ ■ ha'"mn- Wilt'y Brownlee, Judge H. B. Lindsey, J I*. Wright, and Mr. Davis organized the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. Mr. Davis was elected president and Col. Chapman, who later became chairman of tne I ennessee Park Commission, was named chairman of the Doard. 1 he specific purpose of the association was to interest me l-etlera government in establishing a national park in the Great Smokies. Davis and other members of the association held con- v t ", I ! ^'l>,U'n T' Mather' th™ director of the National Park Service, and with other officials of the U. S. department of the Interior. In the seventh annual report of 82
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