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Mountain Time: What if Horace Kephart had Never Come to the Smokies?
Editor's Note: Readers interested in learning more about the life and times of Horace Kephart are fortunate that GSMA published Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography in 2019. Co-authored by George Ellison and Janet McCue, the book won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award that same year.
I recently hiked along Deep Creek in the
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New Horace Kephart Collection Showcases Previously Unpublished Writings
A new book released by University of Tennessee Press presents the most extensive collection of writings in print to date by early Great Smoky Mountains National Park advocate and author Horace Kephart. Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzell of Western Carolina University, Horace Kephart: Writings provides a perfect companion to Great
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Ellison and McCue: Kephart Brought Them Together
By Frances Figart, Creative Director
In 2019, George Ellison and Janet McCue won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award for their Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography (2019, Great Smoky Mountains Association). They will be interviewed on a Lit Café Zoom meeting hosted by the Western North Carolina Historical Association on
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Back of Beyond, new Kephart biography from Great Smoky Mountains Association, invites readers to truly 'know the man'
An icon of the Southern Appalachian region known for the seminal books Camping and Woodcraft (1906) and Our Southern Highlanders (1913), Horace Kephart was instrumental in efforts to establish the Appalachian Trail along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
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