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Online Exhibit: Maps and Mapping: Map Notebook

	"My rough sketches were made in a vest-pocket memorandum book that was quadrille ruled. Mere lines showed the road, trail, creek, and branches...." - Camping and Woodcraft, Volume 2, page 82. In time, Kephart focused his mapping hobby to the Eagle Creek and Hazel Creek watersheds in Swain County, North Carolina. He dedicated this Cross Section notebook to the area and created a key at the beginning of the notebook. Each number represents the page that the specific map section is found. There is a pair of blank pages between every pair of map sections. These sections were transcribed onto larger quadrille ruled map sections. These larger maps are housed with Kephart's other maps at Special Collections, Hunter Library. In his writings, Kephart frequently discusses many of the people and places shown in these map sections.

Horace Kephart: Revealing an Enigma is presented by Hunter Library Special Collections and the Mountain Heritage Center. This project was supported in whole or in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Disclaimer: These items are presented as part of the historical record and not meant to be advisory in “how-to” methods of camping, or other activities. This site includes historical materials that may contain negative stereotypes or language reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place including terminology that may not be deemed appropriate today.