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Horace Kephart is to visit peak named for him

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  • Mount Kephart was named for author and woodsman, Horace Kephart in 1928, in a rare act of honoring a living person. Originally, a mountain known as Mount Collins was the site of Kephart’s namesake, but in the early 1930s, the name Mount Collins was restored and a different peak was given the name Mount Kephart. This new peak, the current Mount Kephart, is north of Clingmans Dome. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) first published “Camping and Woodcraft” in 1906 and “Our Southern Highlanders” in 1913. Throughout his life, he 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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