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National Museum of American History: Earl Schaeffer and the Appalachian Trail

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Earl Schaeffer is credited with being the first person to walk the length of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. Follow this link to an exhibition site where extracts from Schaeffer's diary of his four-month-long trek, undertaken in 1948, can be sampled and analyzed.

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appalachian mountains, appalachian trail, earl schaeffer, national museum of american history, smithsonian, smithsonian institute
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