🏞️The Hidden Smoky Mountains Spot With a Dark, Illegal History🏕️

Inside the area that legendary author Horace Kephart once described as "a country of ill fame"

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.

Kephart was 42, and he spent the rest of his life living amongst and writing about the people of the Smokies and beyond. His work “Our Southern Highlanders” was published in 1913. It helped shape a national obsession with - and misunderstanding of - the people of the region.........

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