Thursday, May 3, 2012

Meigs Line by Dwight McCarter and Joe Kelly

I saw this book at the Sugarlands Visitor Center and I ordered it from the library...It's written by retired ranger McCarter and it describes journeys he and his friend made in the mountains to find the original boundary between the United States and the Cherokee Nation...The line went through the Smokies and into South Carolina and over the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The two men did not follow trails, they "shot" the historical line and walked through bushes and rhodendron hells and over bluffs and caves and through rivers...Reading the book is like taking a hike in the mountains....I loved it......

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