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Horace Sowers Kephart (September 8, 1862 – April 2, 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. ==Biography== Kephart was born in East Salem, Pennsylvania, and raised in Iowa. He was the director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library in St. Louis, Missouri from 1890 to 1903. In these years Kephart also wrote about camping and hunting trips. Earlier, Kephart had also worked as a librarian at Yale University and spent significant time in Italy as an employee of a wealthy American book collector. In 1904, Kephart's family (wife Laura and their six children) moved to Ithaca, New York, but Laura and Horace never divorced or legally separated. Horace Kephart found his way to western North Carolina, where he lived in the Hazel Creek section of what would later become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: :"I took a topographic map and picked out on it, by means of the contour lines and the blank space showing no settlement, what seemed to be the wildest part of these regions; and there I went." Later in life Kephart campaigned for the establishment of a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains with photographer and friend George Masa, and lived long enough to know that the park would be created. He was later named one of the fathers of the national park. He also helped plot the route of the Appalachian Trail through the Smokies.〔http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6759/is_30/ai_n28413324/ Horace Kephart and Thomas Wolfe's "abomination," Look Homeward, Angel, ''Thomas Wolfe Review'' - 2006〕 Kephart died in a car accident in 1931, and was buried near Bryson City, North Carolina, a small town near the area he wrote about in 'Our Southern Highlanders''.〔http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/07_05/07_13_05/mtn_voices.html A hike with a bit of history, The Smoky Mountain News - 13 July 2005〕 Two months before his death, Mount Kephart was named in his honor.〔 The Mountain Heritage Center and Special Collections at Hunter Library, Western Carolina University have created a digitized 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. Ken Burns' multi-part documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" features Horace Kephart in the fourth episode (1920–1933), which was initially broadcast on September 30, 2009. Kephart is a character in Ron Rash's novel ''Serena'', as well as Walt Larimore's novels, ''Hazel Creek'' and ''Sugar Fork''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horace Kephart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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