It Happened in the Great Smokies includes thirty-one fascinating stories about events and ten biographies of people that shaped this famous national park in the states of North Carolina and Tennessee.
From an eighteenth-century Cherokee feast to a deadly wildfire that destroyed a town, It Happened in the Great Smokies looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of America's most visited national park.

Michael R. Bradley lives in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and has taught US History at Motlow College in Lynchburg, Tennessee from 1970¿2006. He has hiked and camped in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for more than forty-five years. He is also the author of Death in the Great Smoky Mountains, It Happened in the Civil War and It Happened in the Revolutionary War.