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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 (a memoir about his life in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina) and the classic outdoors guide Camping and Woodcraft.
Kephart's work, as an instructive manual on where and how to camp, follows in the footsteps of E.R. Wallace's Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks and Handbook of Travel (1875). [2] Much of the material, however, used in the compilation of Kephart's book is based on the author's own first-hand experiences in the wilderness and which he ...
Kephart was also instrumental in mapping the route of the park's Appalachian Trail segment, which was completed in the 1930s. The trail closely follows the Tennessee-North Carolina border, and traverses many of the highland pastures (most of which have been reclaimed by a young forest) that figured prominently in Our Southern Highlanders . [ 8 ]
Dallas Paul Kephart [1] (born c. 1996 [2]) is an American politician and attorney who currently represents the 73rd District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican since 2023. Early life
The 73rd Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in central Pennsylvania and has been represented by Dallas Kephart since 2023. District profile [ edit ]
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George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, land owner, farmer, and philanthropist. A native of Maryland, he was an agent of the interstate trading firm Franklin & Armfield early in his career, and later occupied, owned, and finally leased out that company's infamous slave jail in Alexandria (originally District of Columbia, after March 13 ...
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