Selected Bibliography
For those who wish to study the natural history of
the Great Smoky Mountains further, the following selected references are
offered. While the list is far from complete, the publications selected
give additional and, in many instances, detailed and helpful
information.
BOWMAN, ELIZABETH SKAGGS. 1948. Land of High
Horizons. Southern Publishers, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn. Popular.
BUTCHER, DEVEREUX. 1955. Exploring Our National
Parks and Monuments, 288 pp. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
Beautifully illustrated book (in cloth or paper covers), with
interesting background information.
CAIN, STANLEY A. 1930a. Certain Floristic
Affinities of the Trees and Shrubs of the Great Smoky Mountains and
Vicinity. Butler Univ. Bot. Studies, v. 1, pp. 129-150.
Technical.
______. 1930b. An Ecological Study of the Heath
Balds of the Great Smoky Mountains. Butler Univ. Bot. Studies, v. 1,
pp. 177-208. An important pioneering study of the initiation,
maintenance, and distribution of this type of vegetation.
______. 1943. The Tertiary Character of the Cove
Hardwood Forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Torrey
Bot. Club Bull., v. 70, pp. 213-235. Author concludes that the park's
virgin hardwood forests are "the finest example of temperate Tertiary
forests to be found anywhere in the world, except probably in Eastern
Asia." Technical.
EATON, ALLAN H. 1937. Handicrafts of the Southern
Highlands. Russell Sage Foundation, New York. A standard work on the
subject.
FINK, PAUL M. 1933. Early Explorers in the Great
Smokies. East Tenn. Hist. Soc. Publ., v. 5, pp. 55-68. East
Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville. Popular.
1934. Great Smokies History Told in Place
Names. East Tenn. Hist. Soc. Publ., v. 3, pp. 3-11. East Tennessee
Historical Society, Knoxville. Popular.
HAIRSTON, NELSON G. 1949. The Local Distribution
and Ecology of the Plethodontid Salamanders of the Southern
Appalachians. Ecol. Monog., v. 19, pp. 47-73. Technical.
JENNISON, HARRY M. 1939. A Sketch of the Flora of
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tenn. Acad. Sci. Journ., v.
14, no. 3, pp. 266-298. Popular.
KELLOGG, REMINGTON. 1939. Annotated List of
Tennessee Mammals. U.S. Natl. Museum. Proc., v. 86, no. 3051, pp.
245-303. Contains important commentaries on native species, both present
and extirpated.
KELSEY, HARLAN P., and DAYTON, WILLIAM A. (editors).
1942. Standardized Plant Names, 2d ed., 675 pp. J. Horace
McFarland Co., Harrisburg, Pa.
KEPHART, HORACE. 1913 (rev. 1922). Our Southern
Highlanders, 469 pp. Macmillan Co., New York. A very readable
popular book by one who, for many years, lived very close to these
people.
KING, P. B., and STUPKA, ARTHUR. 1950. The Great
Smoky MountainsTheir Geology and Natural History. Sci.
Monthly, v. 71, pp. 31-43. Technical.
KING, P. B., HADLEY, J. B., NEWMAN, R. B., and
HAMILTON, W. B. 1958. Stratigraphy of Ocoee Series, Great Smoky
Mountains, Tennessee and North Carolina. Geol. Soc. America Bull.,
v. 69, pp. 947-966. A very important technical account by geologists
most familiar with the area.
KING, WILLIS. 1939. A Survey of the Herpetology of
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Amer. Midland Nat., v. 21, pp.
531-582. This and the following reference are the best for the park
area. Together, they include the great majority of the local amphibians
and reptiles.
_______. 1944. Herpetological Notes. Additions to
the List of Amphibians and Reptiles of Great Smoky Mountains National
Park. Copeia, no. 4 (1944), p. 255. (See preceding reference.)
KOMAREK, EDWIN V., and KOMAREK, Roy. 1938. Mammals
of the Great Smoky Mountains. Chicago Acad. Sci. Bull., v. 5, no. 6,
pp. 137-162. The first fairly complete report on the subject. In need of
revision.
KORSTIAN, C. F. 1937. Perpetuation of Spruce on
Cutover and Burned Lands in the Higher Southern Appalachian
Mountains. Ecol. Monog., v. 7, pp. 125-167. Excellent summary
relating to the Canadian-zone forests in the park and vicinity.
LITTLE, ELBERT L., JR. 1953. Check List of Native
and Naturalized Trees of the United States (Including Alaska), 472
pp. U.S. Dept. Agr. Handb. No. 41.
MARK, A. F. 1958. The Ecology of the Southern
Appalachian Grass Balds. Ecol. Monog., v. 28, pp. 293-336. One of
the best and most comprehensive reports on the subject.
NEUMAN, ROBERT B. 1947. Notes on the Geology of
Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. Tenn.
Acad. Sci. Jour., v. 22, no. 3, pp. 167-712. A brief account of this
fenster, or "window," in the rocks.
SHANKS, R. E. 1954. Climates of the Great Smoky
Mountains. Ecology, v. 35, pp. 354-361. Based on a 5-year survey of
temperature and precipitation data along the transmountain road.
STEPHENS, GEORGE MYERS. 1947. The Smokies
Guide. Stephens Press, Asheville, N.C. Popular.
STUPKA, ARTHUR. 1943. Through the Year in the
Great Smoky Mountains, Month by Month, in The Great Smokies and
the Blue Ridge, Roderick Peattie, ed., pp. 263-289. Vanguard Press,
New York. Popular.
TANNER, JAMES T. 1955. The Altitudinal
Distribution of Birds in a Part of the Great Smoky Mountains. The
Migrant, v. 26, no. 3, pp. 37-40. Has range chart for 30 species.
______. 1957. Adventures for Bird-Watchers in the
Great Smoky Mountains. Audubon Mag., v, 59, pp. 118-123. A very good
popular account by an authority.
THORNBOROUGH, LAURA. 1956. The Great Smoky
Mountains, 180 pp. Univ. of Tenn. Press, Knoxville. Popular.
TILDEN, FREEMAN. 1951. The National
ParksWhat They Mean to You and Me, 417 pp. Alfred A. Knopf,
New York. A guide to the parks, monuments, and historic sites of the
United States.
WELLS, B. W. 1937. Southern Appalachian Grass
Balds. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. Jour., v. 53, pp. 1-26. A summary
of the various theories relating to the initiation of these
high-altitude meadows. Other theories have been proposed since this was
written.
WETMORE, ALEXANDER. 1939. Notes on the Birds of
Tennessee. U.S. Natl. Museum Proc., v. 86, no. 3050, pp. 175-243.
Important commentaries by an authority. Species occurring in western and
middle Tennessee are also discussed.
______. 1941. Notes on the Birds of North
Carolina. U.S. Natl. Museum Proc., v. 90, no. 3117, pp. 483-530. An
important reference on the subject. Comments on western North Carolina
birds are applicable to park species.
WHITTAKER, R. H. 1956. Vegetation of the Great
Smoky Mountains. Ecol. Monog., v. 26, pp. 1-80. Technical.
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