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The History of Moonshine in the Sugarlands

In 1904, Horace Kephart, a librarian/outdoorsman who tended the stacks at the Yale University Library and, for a while, worked for an American rare book collector in Italy, separated from his family and made his way to the Mountains of North Carolina.

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He spent the rest of his life living amongst and writing about the people of the Smokies and beyond.

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When Kephart wrote about a remote, hard-to-reach, and sparsely populated area of the mountains, he was drawn to its less savory elements...

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