Scope and Contents Horace Kephart, a Cornell graduate student in the 1880s and later a Yale librarian, evolved into an enigmatic woodsman, author, and activist instrumental in establishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Appalachian Trail that runs through it. In a Chats in the Stacks talk given at Mann Library in December 2019, Janet McCue discusses “Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography” (Great Smoky Mountains Association), which she co-authored with George Ellison and which garnered...