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Horace Kephart, Driven from Library by Broken Health, Reborn in Woods

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  • 12/12/26 ( UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Horace Kephart, Driven) From Library By Brokeni Health, Reborn In Woods Finds Treasure Of Which He'd Dreamed In Curious Mountain Folk Of Great Smokies; e Nov/ Again The Libraries Know Himj Has]« Lived Two Lives. , hatchet and a thing • St. I of Post-Dispatch by F. A. Behr mer, one of the star (hat newspaper. It is reproduced here by permission oi The Post-Dispatch. By P. A. BEIIYJIER, Of the Post-Dispatch Staff BRYSON CITY, h. C,—YVh he cities of America and Euro books, he did his work behind the walls of great libraries. Xow he. sits at a window that opens upon s- out beyond. He :an r lia'a. look through his the swiftly.rIov.-i ; >- dge I.I . . , if the day's toil packed '.,' 'i0'ing on the v. it tin two hour n. the wide spaces and the fcigh pla ces \ •here he like t to "librae ': i. .rt won h gh p osi- tion in the b rian. He x fronrrank r For I:) years he v. as at the hes d o'f St. Loui Me cantile Libra his, but it began )b inn • d for a different 1 .re, i of ho h , ", sede rds hat they br wanted to be lid pinees, A here the rewards are ess . at his task- would throw all and find ss and LIVE. itains, and with .health reel he had no wish to return to. :ities that had known him and :>ther life. h:.id been devoted, hose to stay among the mounting had brought, healing of h and rebirth of spirit. He He has come back, though, to ha' place of fame that he aban- loned when he left the world that nd known him and went into the ivildcrness. He is back in America's Who's Who. The Kepharts came from Switzerland long agft. When they reach- r.f (he maintains was born in the blood of the bov. Horace Kephart, for it is a love that is strong. Held in leash until i ■ i -, .-a-.-eer v/as making in busy ./hies, where the great libraries were, it broke bounds when his health gave iviiv under the strain, and the man. y again, was off to the lam vood and water, wind an. in his release. . S first : family had moved, i in my bonk. Then I built a eave out of prat i si d, an 1 so -kt 1 it with all sorts of booty. The end. fi I made f'ay-n;,-!-;: tea---:. bottles of rack and cordials, ki of tools, barrels of powder and ba; of shot. On other trips 1 brougl runlets of rum, a great hogshes of bread, barrels of flour, a. be >f fine of s T t then been, with the fam ily i" V i i mt'i A. : iioc, 'iio '\i' m i on the part of the faculty as to my orthodoxy and sundry other qual- i{.:•.;■.■ tions;" a year at- Boston university, with the blessed privilege, ory; and then 13 years at the head £ the St. Louis .Ve.reanule Library, ingency that To another
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  • Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author. In 1904, he left his work as a librarian in St. Louis and permanently moved to western North Carolina. His popular book, “Camping and Woodcraft” was first published 1906; the 1916/1917 edition 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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This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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