Tramping in the Great Smokies
Tramping in the Great Smokies
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The Great Smokies are among the oldest mountains on the continent if not in the world. Here the student of geology can see where uplift has renewed the streams. Little River with its forks and prongs, carving its way through the central ridge shows where it is older than the last uplift. Here are forests of amazing variety, reaching their greatest growth and luxuriance on the well-watered slopes of the Great Smokies. Here are murmuring pines and hemlocks, of which the poet sings; here, too, are numerous oaks, hickories, chestnuts, gums, ash, locust, walnut, butternut, hornbeam, linn, bass wood, buckeye, redbud, dogwood, sycamore, hackberry, mulberry, thorn, willow, alder, holly, birch, beech, cucumber, peawood, wild cherry, sour- wood, the serviss tree, all growing in friendly companionship on a single mountain side. But the tulip tree or yellow poplar is king of the Smokies. I have found them growing tall and straight, eighty feet to the first limb, twenty- five M T HAS BEEN SAID THAT ON A FIVE-MILE WALK UP ROARING FORK ONE MAY FIND MORE FERNS, TREES AND WILD FLOWERS THAN ON ANY WALK OF THE SAME LENGTH IN THIS COUNTRY, IF NOT IN THE WORLD feet in circumference. I have also found hemlocks and chestnuts and wild cherry as great in girth, though not in height. It has been said that on a five-mile walk up Roaring Fork from Gatlin- burg, one may find more different varieties of trees, ferns, shrubs and wild flowers than on any walk of the same length in the United States, if not in the world. I listed fifty trees and shrubs and stopped. There were many I didn't know. One of special interest pointed out by my guide was gopherwood. "Old-timers say that's what Noah built the ark out of," he explained, "and I can't dispute it none." He also told me that the mountain people call hemlock
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This 4-page article, titled “Tramping the Great Smokies,” was reprinted from a 1927 issue of “American Forests and Forest Life, the magazine of The American Forestry Association. In it, the author writes about her first-hand experiences hiking and camping in the Smokies. A native of Tennessee, Laura Thornborough (1885-1973) was also the author of several books; her most well-known work is “The Great Smoky Mountains.” In this 1937 publication, Thornborough describes the mountains and surrounding communities and provides a first-hand history of the park’s formation. Besides the spelling “Thornborough,” she also spelled her name “Thornburgh.”
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America
