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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart
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- 7 - to me the real entrance to the Smokies. The town was named for the Bryson family. Dr. Dan Bryson and Mr. Thad Bryson, his brother and a very able lawyer, were also friends of ours, and owned the land on Deep Creek where we camped several times, for that first trip, up Deep Creek was not our last. The Bryson place is now in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I understand that camping is allowed there but there is no road up to our old camp site at the Bryson place at present. There is a -very attractive public picnic, or camp ground on Deep Greek, two and a half miles from Bryson City and a paved road leading to it. One ¥/ould have to walk up trails, or possibly an old narrow dirt road, from the camp ground to the Bryson place. I am told there is still good fishing in Deep Creek. There have, .of course, been many changes since I camped and fished up there. And Bryson City 'has changed too -- the old Cooper House, where Horace Kephart lived for many years, after leaving his cabin on Sugar Fork, has been torn down. The Tuckasegee river still runs through the town and the bridge over that river is still there. The town has grown much and there are many attractive and good places to eat and to stay. The Fontana Lake comes up near to Bryson. The Tuckasegee river now empties into Fontana Lake. The building of the Fontana Dam, of course, made many changes. 1 remember that one December day I drove all the way from the Grange, near Fletcher, in Henderson County, out to Bryson just to get a little bit of yellow holly - there was one holly tree below Bryson, on Mr. Thad Bryson's land, that had
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These letters between Fred J. Overly and Dodette Westfeldt Grinnell detail Grinnell’s account of a fishing trip the author made with Horace Kephart. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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