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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Betsey Beeler Creekmore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2823
Abstract

This collection contains the notes, photographs, and books collected by Betsey Beeler Creekmore for her publications and research about the Knoxville region and the Great Smoky Mountains.

Dates: 1930s, 1960s-1990s

Fink Mountain Days Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3853
Abstract The collection consists of a typed manuscript, written in 1960 in Jonesboro, Tennessee, by mountaineer and Tennessee historian Paul Fink, entitled “Mountain Days. A Journal of Camping Experiences in the Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. 1914-1938.” An early draft of his 1975 book, Backpacking was the only way, the journal details his experiences exploring the Smoky Mountains and includes accounts of how he helped developed the Appalachian Trail...
Dates: 1960

Ruth Ewald Collection Regarding the Great Smoky Mountains

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3522
Abstract

This collection houses Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Handbooks, newsletters, pocket maps, and guides to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park assembled by Ruth Z. Ewald.

Dates: 1926-2009

Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0423
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of bulletins, photographs, song sheets, member information, and other materials documenting the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club. Also included are a few issues of the Georgia Mountaineer, three guidebooks to various areas of the Smoky Mountains, and materials describing the building of a transmountain road in the 1960s and the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Bill.

Dates: 1926-1969 July