Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Item 1 - Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Item 3 - Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Item 4 - Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Item 5 - Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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Item

Details
- Format
  - Clippings (information artifacts)
  - Speeches (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_13150_30_06
Transcript

_6_ //f In any case, by whatever trails the Spanish adventurers hurried tnrougn the mountain fastness oi the Cherokees, they made a lasting impression. Those imperious, white_ faced, bearded men in leather arnior and steel helmets, who bore tubes that dealt death with fire and thunder, who rode great tamed beasts the like of which no Cherokee had ever ieen, were awesome figures, prodigies from another world. And tney were the fore_runners of a new age, tne heralds of a mighty change. Ancient Region So it is that, although this Kituwha region of curs is the last American frontier east of the Mississippi, the last territory ceded to the United States by an aboriginal nation, in the East, still .it is ancient in the annals of the white race_ on this continent. Three hundred and eig'hty»*iK years ago, when De Soto's little army struggled through the forest ana mountains of North Carolina, there was no white settlement in all America,^ north of Florida and Mexico. This was sixty_seven yeatje_ before the founding of Jamestown and eighty years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Europe was in the throes of the Reformation. Protestantism was just j coining to birth. Indeed, the very name of Protestant was first used only eleven years before ue Soto passed through thes. mountains or ours, seeking and finding heroic a_a_ venture, madif with tfce lust of g.ld. ■' n '., .3 /C C / t £>

Object

Description

This news clipping describes a speech made by Horace Kephart to the Women’s Club of Bryson City, North Carolina in 1929. The clipping was collected by George Masa. George Masa (1881-1933) was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In 1931, he was named to the three-person nomenclature committee for the North Carolina Park Commission and had the responsibility for accurately naming the peaks, streams, and other features. Mutual interests fostered Masa’s friendship with Horace Kephart (1862-1931), a noted author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Kephart and Masa often hiked together with park officials on inspection trips and provided information to stir public interest. Kephart wrote many articles promoting regional conservation and the park movement.
Details
- Creator
  - Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931
- Format
  - Clippings (information artifacts)
  - Speeches (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1929-05-07
  - Date digitized: 2015-11-02
- Extent
  - Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
  - Pages: 6 pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Swain County (N.C.)
  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - George Masa Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_13150_30
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Kephart's address before Bryson City Women's Club

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