Mount Le Conte

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In print for the first time in fifty years, Mount Le Conte is a reissue of the vital 1966 self-published memoir by Paul J. Adams (1901-1985), a well-known Tennessee naturalist and the first custodian of the Smoky Mountain’s majestic summit in the years before the area used to be declared a national park. Appointed custodian of Mount Le Conte in 1925 by the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association-the organization leading the national park efforts that would come to fruition in 1934-Adams went to work in an instant and spent a year making the camp suitable for overnight visitors. Mount Le Conte, an immense mile-high formation extending five miles from the principle divide of the Great Smoky Mountains, with its rugged landscapes, rushing streams, and fecund forests, used to be regarded as a prime showplace in efforts to establish the Smokies as a national park. Along with an extensive introduction, the editors have augmented the original text of Mount Le Conte with several photographs and sketches gleaned from Adams’s personal papers, resulting in a fuller, more complete reconstruction of Adams’s role in establishing the camp that would later come to be referred to as Le Conte Lodge. A very powerful source at the fascinating history of Mount Le Conte in the pre-Park era, this book is a companion to the recently published Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a Dog and his Master on Mount Le Conte (University of Tennessee Press, 2016).

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