Horace Kephart
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Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was an American travel writer and librarian, best known as the author of Our Southern Highlanders, about his life in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina.
Kephart was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Iowa. He was the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis, Missouri from 1890 to 1903. In these years Kephart also wrote about camping and hunting trips. [1]
In 1904, Kephart moved to western North Carolina, where he lived in what would later become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Combining his own experience and observations with other written studies, Kephart wrote Our Southern Highlanders, published in 1913 and expanded in 1922. [1]
Later in life Kephart campaigned for the establishment of a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains, and lived long enough to know that the park would be created. Kephart died in a car accident in 1931. Two months before his death, Mount Kephart was named in his honor. [1]
The Mountain Heritage Center and Special Collections at Hunter Library, Western Carolina University have created a digitized an online exhibit called "Revealing an Enigma" that focuses on Horace Kephart's life and works. This exhibit contains documents and artifacts (photos and maps) that can be browsed or searched.
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- ^ a b c Horace Kephart: Biography. Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma. Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina University. Retrieved on 2006-06-24.
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