Land of High Horizons
by Bowman, Elizabeth Skaggs
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine faded. Bookplate of William J. Hentschel (believed to be the same a
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About This Item
Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, Inc, 1944. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine faded. Bookplate of William J. Hentschel (believed to be the same as one of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers.. xiv, 212, [2] p., [32] leaves of plates: il.; 21 cm. Endpaper maps of Appalachian region and Great Smoky Mountains National Park In Land of High Horizon' (1938), Elizabeth Skaggs Bowman describes 500 acres of tangled laurel and kindred shrubs. The region was named for Irving Huggins, a herdsman, who was lost there for almost a week and narrowly escaped with his life. While herding cattle on Silers Bald, one of the unique mountain-top meadows, Huggins decided to cross to another ridge. To avoid the long distance around, he attempted to go through the laurel thickets covering the slopes between. His view being cut off by the dense shrubs that grow much higher than a man s head, he lost his sense of direction and became hopelessly confused. He eventually found a stream...and by following it managed to reach, more dead than alive, a settler s cabin near the edge of the wilderness.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66328
- Title
- Land of High Horizons
- Author
- Bowman, Elizabeth Skaggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine faded. Bookplate of William J. Hentschel (believed to be the same a
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Publisher
- Southern Publishers, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Kingsport, TN
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Appalachian Region, Gatlinburg, David Chapman, Mountaineer, Frontier, Cherokee, LeConte, Alum Cave Trail, Jack Huff, Clingmans Dome, Steve Owenby, Andrews Bald, Tsali, Mount Guyot
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