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Mount Guyot panorama #1 of 2

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  • Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding area. A banker and a conservationist, Fink kept a journal of his explorations and published his entries in Backpacking Was the Only Way (1975). On the back of this undated photograph, Fink wrote: This picture when properly linked up with one marked #2, make a panorama of Guyot, taken from the last highest point west of the Balsam Gap. After seeing the view from this point one can easily believe that if Guyot is not the highest mountain in the Smokies, it certainly is the largest.