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  • Taken from Jackson County Journal-April 9, 1931: ^^*\i/t/\/oJ/ "7 HUNDREDS ATTEND KEPHART FUNERAL Hundreds of people from all over Western North Carolina gathered in the auditorium of the Bryson City School, Sunday afternoon to pay their last tribute of respect to Horace Kephart, nationally known author, authority on the Southern mountains, father of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and national councillor of the Boy Scouts of America. • Mr. Kephart was killed last Thursday night about eleven o'clock near Ela when the auto in which he and his friend Fiswoode Tarleton, who had been visiting Kephart for several weeks left the road and turned over, throwing Mr. Kephart some forty feet, breaking his neck and crushing Mr. Tarleton against a stone wall. They both met instant death. A taxi driver named Brown, who was at the wheel, suffered a fractured skull, and is recovering at the Harris Community Hospital in Sylva. Coming to Western North Carolina more than a quarter of a century ago, broken in health, Mr. Kephart regained his health and at the same time won considerable fame as a writer, while camped in the then virgin forest on Little Fork of Sugar Fork of Hazel Creek, where he lived alone for several years. Later he made his home in Bryson City, at the Cooper House, making frequent excursions into the Smokies. He co-conceived the idea of a great park in the Smokies, and his writings brought it into national prominence.
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  • This article is a memorial to Horace Kephart (1862-1931), 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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