Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection

Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection

Bird, William Ernest

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

Reports

This copy of a 1934 correspondence, from W. E. Bird to J. Ross Eakin, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. William Ernest Bird (1890-1975) with Western Carolina Teachers College would become president of the college in the 1950s. J. Ross Eakin (1879-1946) was the first superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, holding that post from 1931 until 1945.

Bird, William Ernest

Horace Kephart Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1934-09-12

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

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