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Horace Kephart to Albert Britt, August 23, 1919, page 1

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  • yxj» OUTING JUl Outdoors yachtinq Outing-Chester Pictures OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY 141-145 WEST 36th ST. ^-r^# NEW YORK CITY Bryson City, I. C. DEPARTMENT Aug .33, 1919. Mr. Albert Britt, Editor OUTIHG. New York. Dear Mr. Britt;— The letter from Mr. F. M. Cockrell, Jr., goes right to the roots of the most interesting ballistic problems of our time. Your suggestion that 1 make a special article of the reply will be carried out next week. I hare just returned from a man-hunt in "the Sugarlands■ of Sevier County, Tennessee. The Sugarland Mountain runs northwest from the Smokies between Clingman Dome and Mount Le Conte. On its southwestern side is the great gulf that I call "Godforsaken" in °J£E Southern Highlanders. On the northerly 3ide, which is drained by the headwaters of the Little Pigeon River, is a similar descent, though into a narrower basin, or rather a gurge, exceedingly steep and rocky, gloomy with Immense trees that crowd each other, and choked with laurel and other underbrush, fairly impenetrable except where the one lone trail leads down along a brawling torrent. These two basins, and the mountain. *AaNbng them, collectively go by the name of Sugar lands. *vdiyiding"^ Wa walked eighteen miles the first day, crossing Smoky at an altitude of 5,300 feet, at Collins Gap. I was with a U. S. secret service officer and a quarter-breed Indian. We were after a North Carolinian who had jumped his bond (moonshining and a pistol case); also his father and his brother; all supposed to be hiding out in the Sugarlands. The Federal officer had asked me to go with him, and I was glad of the chance, as it would take me into what had long been known as one of the worst ''blockading'* districts in America. I wanted to see this business from all angles, including that of the officer. As a posseman I got the latter view. From any other motive the adventure would have been a foolish stunt. From Clingman to Guyot, taking in both sides of the Smokies, is an area of about 200 square miles of primeval forest, which the lumbermen are just beginning to penetrate. It is uninhabited, except for a few scattered cabins. The Carolina side is rough enough to satisfy almost anyone's lust for mountaineering; but the Tennessee side is simply the Devil's own country, steeper, rockier, more thorny and "laurely,11 and with fewer trails of any sort, than any other region I know of. It matches the famed Every man who went through the mill for Uncle Sam is a convert to the outdoor way. OUTING publications DOMINATE the outdoor field.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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