Walter S. Diehl at Davis Bracken's cabin

Walter S. Diehl at Davis Bracken's cabin

Hikers

Log cabins

Outdoor life

Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding area. A banker and a conservationist, Fink kept a journal of his explorations and published his entries in Backpacking Was the Only Way (1975). This photograph was taken during a ten-day trip in 1919 to explore the Eastern end of the Great Smokies. Present were lifelong friends Walter S. Diehl and Paul M. Fink. On the back of this photograph Fink wrote: Davis Brackens cabin at the junction of Alum Cave Creek and the Walker Camp Branch. We spent several days here, fishing and eating. Diehl, who is shown seated at the door, says I broke several long-standing worlds records in "long distance eating". He swears I ate steadily for over two hours, and didn't pick at my food daintily either. I'll own up to a perfectly healthy appetite, but I'm sure he has exaggerated just a little. Note: Davis Bracken is referred to as Jasper Finn in Chapter X of Horace Kephart's book Our Southern Highlanders (1926). Bracken was the custodian of the Champion Fibre Company's possession cabin.

Paul Fink Collection

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1919-06

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Sevier County (Tenn.)

Tennessee

3.75" x 5.75"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America