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Letters and telegrams regarding Horace Kephart

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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.
  • Letters and , Telegrams (Continued from page 2) : ir, but for Ken I had the love for i Aose friend. Never can I remember I when the death of anv other than a j .•elative has come so close to me. In the next day or so, when I c | collect my thoughts. I'll write aga i i certainly appreciate your thought- I fulness in calling me last- night, and j regret that I cannot do more to help i ohan to join in the general grief that \ jomt 3 to all of Kep's friends. | Lena joins me in the best of wish- ; as for you and Lauree. Sincerely, PAUL FINK Hendersonville, N. C. April 6, 1931. Irving K. Stearns, Esq., Bryson City, N. C. My dear Stearns: Wt- have lest one of our best I friends in Horace Kephart—one that can't be replaced! I wish I could have gone to his funeral but could not. . The whole state is the loser, but especially Western N. C. His love for our mountains, and the people in them, we, who knew him, can best understand and appreciate. I always looked forward with pleas ure to meeting him on my visits tc Bryson City and on my next visit,— ] if a kindly providence wills that I g" 'again—will be quite different to me. There is, and will be, a void. I loaned "our Southern Highlanders" to a friend here, and this morning he askei me to let him keep the book a little longer sa he wanted to go over it again. This is a great loss to a?l of us, but especially those nearest tc him. I feel that he must be at rest.i A man who recognized his Creatoi ija his wonderful works, and a friend of ail he came to know. I Sincerely yours, EVERETT L. EWBANK.

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