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Horace Kephart: Biographical Resources

Items about Horace Kephart Published During His Lifetime
Items about Kephart concerning His Death or Memorials
Articles about Horace Kephart Printed after 1940


Items about Horace Kephart Published During His Lifetime

1890

Library Journal, May 1890, p. 156.

1903

Library Journal, vol. 28, December 1903, p. 858.

1904

Library Journal, vol. 29, May 1904: p. 270.

Johnson, Rossiter, editor-in-chief; John Howard Brown, managing editor. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. [uniform title: The Cyclopaedia of American Biography]. Volume 6. Boston: Biographical Society, 1904. “Kephart, Horace.”

1925

“Kephart Goes to Asheville In Interest of Chamber of Commerce.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (February 6, 1925).

“Noted Author of Bryson City Writes Mystery Story.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (May 15, 1925).

MacNeil, Ben Dixon. “The Librarian Who Took His Books to the Mountains and Mountains that Furnished Him Books of Their Own.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (October 9, 1925).

1926

Behymer, F.A. “Horace Kephart, Driven from Library by Broken Health, Reborn in Woods.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (December 12, 1926), section C, p. 8; notice indicates that the article was reprinted from the Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO.

1929

“Horace Kephart, distinguished author and highly esteemed citizen of this city receives the well-earned honor of having one of the highest peaks in Eastern America named for him.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (June 14, 1929).

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. “Kephart, Horace,” in Volume 6, p. 322. New York: James T. White & Company, c1892, reprint 1929.

1930

“Kephart Goes to Washington for Park Transfer.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (February 7, 1930).

Waddell, Maude. “Kephart Finds New Facts About N.C. for Address To the Historical Society.” Winston-Salem Sentinel, Winston-Salem, NC (April 6, 1930).

 

Items about Kephart concerning His Death or Memorials

1931

“Horace Kephart and Fiswoode Tarleton Killed. Authors Die Instantly In Wreck Near Bryson City.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (April 3, 1931), pp. 1, 2.

“Horace Kephart and Tarleton To Be Buried Today.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (April 5, 1931), pp. 1, 7.

Coleman, J.S., Jr. “Personality of Horace Kephart Responsible for Homage Paid Him.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (April 5, 1931), section B, p. 6.

“Kephart Laid To Last Long Rest In Hills.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (April 6, 1931), pp. 1-2.

“Hundreds of Friends Pay Final Tribute to Kephart and Tarleton”; “Killed in Automobile Wreck”; “Our Friend -- Mr. Kephart -- Has Gone Camping” [editorial]; [excerpts from other newspapers]. Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC (April 10, 1931).

“Hundreds Of Friends Pay Final Tribute To Kephart And Tarleton.” Bryson City Times, Bryson City, NC. (April 10, 1931).

Livingstone, John A. “Horace Kephart Was Apostle Who Despised the Limelight.” News & Observer, Raleigh, NC (April 12, 1931).

Henry, Mellinger E. “Horace Kephart, Pioneer Interpreter of the Southern Highlands.” Letter to “Editor of The Times,” April 18, 1931.

“Trail Builders Eulogize Life Of Horace Kephart.” Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC, (June 14, 1931).

McCoy, George W. “Kephart's Fine Library May Be Sold For Debts.” Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC (July 26, 1931).

“The Kephart Memorial.” August 9, 1931.

Hicklin, J.B. “Build Kephart Memorial In Great Smokies Park.” Charlotte Ob. (October 18, 1931).

1934

“Huge Bolder Is Placed At Kephart Grave.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (August 26, 1934).

1935

“Kephart Led In Fight For Smoky Park.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (August 18, 1935).

1936

“Memorial to Kephart To Be Placed At Grave. Boulder Selected For Memorial To Kephart.” Asheville Citizen, Asheville, NC (January 26, 1936).

 

Articles about Horace Kephart Printed after 1940

Alley, Felix E., Judge. Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer. First edition. Salisbury, N.C.: Rowan Printing Company, 1941. (See chapter XXI, “The History of the Carolina Mountaineers Is a History of Progress,” pp. 455 - 471).

Bowers, John. “One Hundred Years with Horace Kephart: The Man and His Legacy.” Smoky Mountain Living 4 (Spring 2004), pp. 26-29.

Bowers, John Christopher, “The Writings of Horace Kephart.” Thesis (M.A.), Department of English, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, 1996.

Carden, Gary. “Books.” Review of Our Southern Highlanders (“An Outlander Comes to the Hills: Despite Flaws, Kephart’s Writing Opened the Eyes of the World to WNC”). Smoky Mountain News, vol. 2, issue 2 (June 12-18, 2002), pp. 26, 28.

Casada, Jim. “Introduction,” pp. vii-xxxiii. Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness. Two volumes in one. A facsimile edition, with an introduction by Jim Casada. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1917, 1988.

Casada, Jim. “Writers of the Purple Prose.” Wildlife in North Carolina 52, no. 1 (January 1988), pp. 16-21.

Ellison, George. “Introduction,” pp. ix-xlviii. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life among the Mountaineers. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1976. 1984.

Ellison, George. “Film-maker remembers the author Horace Kephart.” Asheville Citizen-Times, Smoky Mountain Neighbors section. February 27/28, 1991.

Ellison, George. “A Quest for Wilderness.” Wildlife in North Carolina, ed. by Jim Dean and Lawrence S. Earley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1987, pp. 91-99.

Ellison, George. “Horace Kephart,” in The Heritage of Swain County, North Carolina, 1988, Bryson City, N.C.: Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society in cooperation with the History Division of Hunter Pub. Co., Winston Salem, N.C., c1988, pp. 199-200.

Ellison, George. “A Quest for Wilderness.” Wildlife in North Carolina, vol. 44, no. 1 (January 1980): 8-11; and, accompanying photo-essay, “Kephart’s Southern Highlanders,” pp. 12-17.

Ellison, George. “Kephart, Horace Sowers,” in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell, vol. 3, pp.352-352. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Farwell, Harold F., Jr., and J. Karl Nicholas, eds. Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

Frome, Michael. Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains. First edition, Garden City,, NY: Doubleday, 1966; revised ed., Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980; expanded ed., Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. (See Chapter XII, “Horace Kephart).

Goodwin, Stephen. “The Art of Getting Lost.” Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, September 1980, pp. 106-111, 114-118.

Maxwell, Martin W. “Horace Kephart: An Introduction to His Life and Work.” Thesis (M.A.): Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1982.