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An Englishman is plucked from his native land at a young age and
sent to the USA by his parents. He transferred to a world which he
had previously only dreamt of. With his family he was bombed out
during the 1939-1945 war and was brought up in Reading, Berkshire.
He would eventually find out that his earlier years had not really
prepared him for the wide, new world he was thrust into. His
arrival in the United States of America filled him awe and much
trepidation. This happened in the 1950s and he had little choice
but to make the best of it. He joined the American Air Force and
this action was to set him on a path which would have a profound
effect on his later life. In the service of Uncle Sam he was sent
back to England for overseas duty. Love interests are in abundance
and what started out as a blissful 'chocolate factory' experience
would soon develop into heart wrenching events. Later he would use
some of his experiences in the United States Air Force and the USA
to his advantage when later he was pitched into the exciting world
of Night Clubs and later still the night life of Amsterdam. Hank
Williams songs are used to illustrate and set some of the scenes.
In 1974, Paul M. Fink published Backpacking Was the Only Way, a
memoir of exploration in the Smoky Mountain backcountry that is
long out of print. The basis of the book was a journal kept from
1914 to 1938, combined with evocative photographs that Fink
compiled into a manuscript he called Mountain Days. The manuscript
is now considered to be a unique and insightful first-person
account of the region. Containing rare historical accounts of the
manways, camps, and cabins once used by adventurers exploring the
mountains before the advent of the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, this is the first widely-accessible publication of Mountain
Days. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Wise, professor
and director of the Great Smoky Mountain Regional Project at the
University of Tennessee-Knoxville's John C. Hodges Library. An open
access edition of Mountains Days is available from the Hunter
Library at Western Carolina University.
In print for the first time in fifty years, Mount Le Conte is a
reissue of the important 1966 self-published memoir by Paul J.
Adams (1901-1985), a well-known Tennessee naturalist and the first
custodian of the Smoky Mountain's majestic summit in the years
before the area was declared a national park. Appointed custodian
of Mount Le Conte in 1925 by the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation
Association-the organization leading the national park efforts that
would come to fruition in 1934-Adams went to work immediately and
spent a year making the camp suitable for overnight visitors. Mount
Le Conte, a massive mile-high formation extending five miles from
the main divide of the Great Smoky Mountains, with its rugged
landscapes, rushing streams, and fecund forests, was considered a
prime showplace in efforts to establish the Smokies as a national
park. In addition to an extensive introduction, the editors have
augmented the original text of Mount Le Conte with several
photographs and sketches gleaned from Adams's personal papers,
resulting in a fuller, more complete reconstruction of Adams's role
in establishing the camp that would later come to be known as Le
Conte Lodge. An important source on the fascinating history of
Mount Le Conte in the pre-Park era, this book is a companion to the
recently published Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a Dog and his
Master on Mount Le Conte (University of Tennessee Press, 2016).
In 1925, Paul Adams was appointed custodian of Mount Le Conte, the
third-highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His
job was to welcome tourists, give guided tours, and establish a
camp that would become known as LeConte Lodge, which still stands
in what has become America's most popular national park. Adams had
everything he needed for the job: a passion for the outdoors, a
love of hiking, a desire to preserve the native habitat while
welcoming visitors, and the companionship of a remarkable dog.
During his time on the mountains, Adams trained Smoky Jack to be a
pack-dog-not just carrying supplies but actually making the
four-hour trip to a store in Gatlinburg and back alone. Over the
next nine months, Adams and his dog would become inseperable. Smoky
Jack became his assistant, bodyguard, and best friend. Throughout
Smoky Jack, readers will also gain a unique glimpse into the early
days of the Great Smoky Mountains region during the decade before
it was name a national park in 1934. Adams describes the trials and
triumphs he and the indomitable German sherpherd faced as they
exemplified the ancient relationship between man and dog on Mount
Le Conte, building trails, guiding visitors, and making a life in
nature. Paul Adams's faithful Smoky Jack stays by his side until
the end.
"Terra Incognita" is the most comprehensive bibliography of sources
related to the Great Smoky Mountains ever created. Compiled and
edited by three librarians, this authoritative and meticulously
researched work is an indispensable reference for scholars and
students studying any aspect of the region's past.
Starting with the de Soto map of 1544, the earliest document that
purports to describe anything about the Great Smoky Mountains, and
continuing through 1934 with the establishment of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park--today the most visited national park in
the United States--this volume catalogs books, periodical and
journal articles, selected newspaper reports, government
publications, dissertations, and theses published during that
period.
This bibliography treats the Great Smoky Mountain Region in
western North Carolina and east Tennessee systematically and
extensively in its full historic and social context. Prefatory
material includes a timeline of the Great Smoky Mountains and a
list of suggested readings on the era covered. The book is divided
into thirteen thematic chapters, each featuring an introductory
essay that discusses the nature and value of the materials in that
section. Following each overview is an annotated bibliography that
includes full citation information and a bibliographic description
of each entry.
Chapters cover the history of the area; the Cherokee in the Great
Smoky Mountains; the national forest movement and the formation of
the national park; life in the locality; Horace Kephart, perhaps
the most important chronicler to document the mountains and their
inhabitants; natural resources; early travel; music; literature;
early exploration and science; maps; and recreation and tourism.
Sure to become a standard resource on this rich and vital region,
"Terra Incognita" is an essential acquisition for all academic and
public libraries and a boundless resource for researchers and
students of the region.
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