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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Item 1 - Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924
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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Item 7 - Correspondence: Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924
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Correspondence: Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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Item 8 - Correspondence: Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924
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Correspondence: Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924

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  • -5- to Turkey, or 0MMI across our continent frora Boston to the MM? i'ountain ||MMh If he had como n little fnrth-r west, Into the .Smokies, ha would havo found still more. «yres and MM, in their 1905 report of the southern Appalachian forests, catalogued 136 species of MtiM trees and 174 species of wild shrubs, nearly all of -which are found in the Great Smoky section. The undergrowth, largely MMMjfll of MMMM that cannot survive if the original tree MMMM is cut off, is M varied that ill is MM of the richest MilM&S&g MMMlfl for botanists in the United Statas. ■Jhe Great %oky Mountains tire drained by hundreds of miles of streams that are crystal ci-^ar and MM dash down MMMMMM w«terfalls. All of tMM MM fed by unfailing springs of MS purest MM coldest freestone water. *3?hey contain both the native br-ok trout and MB introduced MMMM trout. '±ha nearby rivers into ?jhich MM mountain creeks flow have the small-ncuth bass and the Eusk-allunge. It it? a singular fact, apparently unknown to iethnologists and sport in?, writers, that tt&f Riant of the pike family which we call the smskallun^e is native to the Little (MMMM and Tuckaseegee rivars, although it is found nowhere else south of the 3t. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the headwaters of MM Mississippi. It has not been introduced MM in the "astern MM Carolina waters, Mt has bean caught in them since abroginal times. There is no part of our country MOT is batter adapted by m ture for a great gume MMMM and. MMMMMM. station. Originally the elk and buffalo were native hare, MMT multiply raoidly wherever protected, and MM black b«ar sturdily holds his MM without protection, though he deserves it. Ms wild turkey, MMiM*l noblest game bird, would soon reestablish itself MM in lar.-e flocks If let fslone.
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