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Horace Kephart and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Horace Kephart and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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14 but naturally he had not been consulted about the matter), but bore a name in common use on the Tennessee side. Heated words passed over the divide be- tween Tennessee and North Carolina, while Kephart kept a pained silence on the sidelines. The matter was finally settled to everyone's satisfaction when another higher and finer peak astride the Appalachian Trail was chosen to bear his name. ° Fortunately he lived to see the matter happily settled. He died shortly thereafter in an automobile accident - April 2, 1931. Once when they stood beside Dr. Mitchell's grave on top of the mountain named for him, George Masa asked Kephart if he wouldn't like to be buried on top of Mt. Kephart. "He didn't answer me for a few minutes, then said 'not so bad1", wrote Masa later in his Japanese-American English, "But I watched his expression and read that he wished so, but he said 'What we care after we die'."*'"' 3ut his dust does not mingle with the Smokies as he desired. Park rules said no; and bureaucratic obstinance prevailed. He lies in a hillside graveyard above Bryson City beneath a giant sandstone boulder brought down from the mountains. There's a sweeping view of the park and Mt. Kephart.in the hazy distance.
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This 1971 thesis reports on Horace Kephart’s involvement in promoting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Horace Kephart (1862-1931), a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author, left his work as a librarian in St. Louis in 1904 and permanently moved to western North Carolina. His popular book, “Camping and Woodcraft,” first published 1906, is considered a standard manual for campers after almost a century of use. Living and working in a cabin on Hazel Creek in Swain County, Kephart began to document life in the Great Smoky Mountains, producing “Our Southern Highlanders” in 1913. Throughout his life, Kephart wrote many articles supporting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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