Guyot and the Great Smokies

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Details
- Creator
  - Avery, Myron H. (Myron Haliburton), 1899-1952
- Format
  - Manuscripts (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_13150_21_1068_01
Transcript

HCTES OK ARNOLD GUYOT Ai3) THE GREAT SMOKII& By Myron K. Avery. Arnold Guyot was the most extensive and exhaustive explorer that the Appalachian "ountain system has ever known. From its/ northern ter»4n£e in Mew England to the end of the Blue Ridge in Georgia Guyot, climbing each peak of importance, fallowed the Appalachian Chain south. It was his purpose to record the elevations of the various peaks of this range and to develop a general, systematic geographic outline of the mountain systemsof the eastern United States. Such extensive familiarity with the Appalachian Chain has never been Jaoe-ess-etr by any other person and it is highly improbably that such knowledge will ever again be acquired. To this man,Arnold Guyot, Was given the inestimable privilege of knowing this region in its thoroughly primitive condition. One reads the Guyot manuscript with the sane eager searching for comments on local history and geography, as in examining the journals of the two Hichaux, to whom the Smoky region was too utterly remote and inaccessible. With the exception of place names, indicating an unmistable local origin, the major portion of the Smoky Mountains* nomenclature either originated with or became fixed as a result of his barometrical surveys, made prier to the eiiril Tar. As a memorial to the man himself there Is not only the enduring monutoent of the most massive peak in eastern Smoky but the equally expressive century old names of the other peaks In the range. ■ Arnold Guyot was a Swiss, horn at Heuchatel in 1807. His. intrest in mountains is traced to his association with Louis A Agassis, whose name is a by-word in American Geology. Guyot's Assocation with Agassis commenced in 1825 and in 1838 we find him -1-

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Description

This 27-page manuscript recounts the involvement of Arnold Guyot in the Great Smoky Mountains. A geologist and geographer, Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884), began his exploration of the Appalachians in 1849. His purpose was to record the elevations of various peaks and develop a systematic geographic outline of the mountain systems of the eastern United States. The manuscript was collected by George Masa. Born Masahara Iizuka and raised in Japan, George Masa (1881-1933) emigrated to the U.S. when he was 20 years old and, in 1915, came to Asheville, where he lived the rest of his life. Masa was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952), was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of the board of the Appalachian Trail Conference.
Details
- Creator
  - Avery, Myron H. (Myron Haliburton), 1899-1952
  - Fink, Paul M.
- Format
  - Manuscripts (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date digitized: 2015-11-02
- Extent
  - Dimension: 11.75" x 8"
  - Pages: 27 pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - George Masa Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_13150_21_1068
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Guyot and the Great Smokies

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