Great Smoky Mountains National Park Archives

When my stories are true, why, I don’t yodel to the end of the story

Joseph Sargent Hall interviewed Wiley Oakley in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1939. Oakley had a 5th-grade education but was street smart.

Suppose that, one of these days when I’m out hunting, I should stumble upon a moonshine still in full operation–what would happen?

Back in nineteen and thirteen me and my brother coon hunted lots [in the] Smokies. We had a dog named Track. He was a good one.

Jim Gasque, NC sportsman, proved that the ordinary slingshot, when properly made and used, can be an adult weapon of deadly accuracy.

On June 15, 1934 it all officially came together at long last. An area of 400,000 acres within the boundary of the park had been acquired.