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Jourdan's first book, a memoir, Heart in the Right Place, was a Wall Street Journal No. 7 bestseller in 2012 [1] and No. 9 bestseller in 2017. [2]Heart in the Right Place is the true story of a spoiled, high-powered United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous life in Washington, D.C. and comes back home to the Great Smoky Mountains to work as an inept receptionist in her father's ...
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 (a memoir about his life in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina) and the classic outdoors guide Camping and Woodcraft.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most biologically diverse national park in the United States. About 19,000 species of organisms are known to live in the park, and scientists estimate that as many as 80,000 to 100,000 additional species may also be present.
Arno Cammerer who became the 3rd director of the National Park Service wrote that Masa was the “best mountaineer on the North Carolina side.” [12] Using his photographic equipment and an odometer he crafted from an old bicycle, Masa was an important contributor to the North Carolina Nomenclature Committee charged with confirming and ...
America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains, saw more visitors last year than the next two parks combined, the Grand Canyon and Zion.. Part of the reason is the location. Many ...
The creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park proved much more complex than the creation of its predecessors, such as Yellowstone and Yosemite, which were already federally owned. Along with convincing logging firms to sell lucrative lumber rights, the Park Commission had to negotiate the purchase of thousands of small farms and ...
Smokies Life is a nonprofit organization that supports Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the southeastern United States. It was authorized by Congress in 1953 to support the Park's educational, scientific, and historical programs. Smokies Life supports the National Park Service through sales, labor
Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee. At 6,593 ft (2,010 m) it is the third highest peak in the national park, behind Kuwohi (6,643 ft (2,025 m)) and Mount Guyot (6,621 ft (2,018 m)). It is also the highest peak that is completely within Tennessee.