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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 3

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Item 1 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 1
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 1

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Item 2 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 2
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 2

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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 3

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Item 4 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 4
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 4

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Item 5 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 5
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 5

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Item 6 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 6
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 6

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  • data Paul fink has premised to intensively mark, measure sad prepare fnid shook/far this gap. lie hopes to do this by the end of the month, so m may consider this .gap eliminated. 1 have allotted to myself the preparation of the remainder of the Southern Urastfca data. Erem ay trip I have -fee data from Damascus to the Bristol-Mountain City Highway. Three days more will be required to obtain the remainder. Also, as a long aide trail., Roy Osmer*s 4ste over the Iron Bouataia from lelichueky Eiver to Bamaseus has been rewritten m s side trail to be Included in this section. ^he first problem is to create a working organisation. An editor-ia- chief should be selected, fhea the responsibility for procuring data for each section assigned, m insure completion of the work a time limit should be fixed. Scientific, historical articles &mi a Bibliography can perhaps be secured liy 'the Editor-la-Chief, la order that you may not be condemned to learn the entire lesson by experience, I shall make, in detail, suj-estions ft* to the data, % vie«a sre, it will be understood, developed by our own book. Ia the first place it must be decided if the data is -to be written in both directloas$ ©r if in one direction, it should be uniform, fhe desirability for writing crest line trail data ia both directions is too obvious to require comment. {If this is done, it is important that in the field proper notes b® taade, perhaps in parenthesis, to enable the compiler to -pz&pmT® proper reverse data.) a road coming in will become on the r&mrm data an important fork| unless noted, the compiler of the data may overlook its importance, fhe mare satisfactory way is to arrive at the reverse distance by subtracting the mileage of the point la question frcra the total of the section. Running -fee wheel back over the measured ground is an unnecessary duplication of laborj also the resulting variation might make it difficult to correlate Is* same point ia the data. fhe data must be ia me narrative form so as to be directional, imperative and informative. * bare trail log 'is 'iaslequate for a stranger. Such logs mast be rewrittea so as to tell how to travel. Of course, this Guide will aot be ®«y where nm&v as detailed as me .Potomac Appalachian frail Glue**. Sere we have peculiar conditions! la the iatlonal Forests the route will run for aHe* without any entries. Sources of water, camp sites, accommodations, shelters, etc. should be emphasised* fo insure accuracy, if possible, the data should be cheeked on the ground by sons one who aM not prepare it. At s»eh times the marking should be ©areftally checked (the wheel is, of course, not needed). {In fact the party preparing the data should perfect the marking. there the route passes through private lands its
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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