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Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park
Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park
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Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park
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Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park
GSMNP_10184_14_03_13Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
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clipped stems protruding at intervals around it, is the young mountaineer's proof that he has "been somewhere," that he is travel-tested. And it is indeed a strange world for a lowlander to visit, this kingdom of the high Smokies, with its dense stand of black spruce and feathery sprayed balsams, its thick moss and waist-high beds of ferns, its snowbirds, vireos, warblers, winter wrens, ravens, eagles, and hawks. Here is the refuge of the black bear, which, in the Smokies, grows larger, I believe, than anywhere else in the country. Panthers no longer haunt the Smokies, but wildoats are numerous, though one seldom sees the furtive things. At this altitude, mingled with the conifers, there are a few species of deciduous trees. There is some striped maple or moose-wood, some aspen, and considerable red cherry, which the natives call "Peruvian," owing to its bitter bark that is used as a substitute for quinine. They have curious names, by the way, for several other trees: black spruce is "he-balsam," Fraser's balsam is "she-balsam," hemlook is "spruce-pine," and the curious smoke-tree is "chit- timwood." In May and June the mountains are a vast flower-garden, with rhododendron and the fiery azalea in full bloom. There are places where for hundreds of acres nothing grows but the rhododendron. There are several speoies of this showy shrub, some with flowers of lilac-purple, others rose-pink, while the splendid bloom of the great rhododendron is waxy-white. The wild animals of the Smokies have abundant food. Untold thousands of bushels of blackberries, dewberries, wild raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, huckleberries, buckberries, servioe-berries, haws, and grapes supply them in
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This 16-page article, “The Last of the Eastern Wilderness: An Article on the Proposed Great Smoky National Park,” is a classic piece by Horace Kephart. The article appeared in the 1926 edition of the magazine “World’s Work.” The article includes photographs by James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) was a noted photographer, hiker, and outdoor enthusiast who played a major role in promoting a national park in the Southern Appalachians. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Throughout his life, Kephart wrote many articles supporting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The article is shown here along with several versions of the original typed manuscript.
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America
