Publication Index
Volumes 1-18
Our full-color, high-quality journal reflects the culture and beauty of the Smokies. We feature the history, science, flora, and fauna of our region, profile local people and institutions, and showcase national park events and outdoor adventures.
Smokies Life Journal is delivered twice a year to all Smokies Life members—30,000 invested readers and growing rapidly. It is available at park visitor centers (with three million visitors per year) as well as at bookstores, retail, and lodging establishments outside the park.
Volume 1, issue 1
September 2007
Item #9999-800
$5.95
Cumberland Jack, K-9 king of Mt. Le Conte Chocolate elixir
Rebirth of the Cherokee language
James E. Thompson, photographer
The night the mountain fell A quilt historian gets her wish How to count a bear
Volume 2, issue 1
March 2008
Item #400999
$5.95
Fishing the horseshoe Bark baskets and buckets
Rattlesnakes in the Great Smoky Mountains
Good luck comes in threes: Trilliums
Roamin’ and restin’, adventurin’ and philosophisin’ with Wiley Oakley
Amongst the old growth: Will Blozan and his giant friends
Fire tower lookouts of the Smokies
Volume 2, issue 2
September 2008
Item #401000
$9.95
A fairy dream on a goat hill Park history and timeline
Aden Carver’s rocking chair
Then and now
The golden life of Arthur Stupka
Return of the missing ones: Wildlife comebacks
Ranger Stories: Why you don’t mess with Ranger Bob Photographer George Masa
The Smokies’ first superintendent: J. Ross Eakin
An interview with Park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson
Volume 3, issue 1
March 2009
Item #401001
$5.95
“A” is for Azalea
Hiking the Smokies’ AT Tremont, company Town
The gift: How Great Smoky Mountains National Park gained a mountain From the artifact collection
Creatures great but small Ranger Stories: The skunk rodeo
The Map Room: 1930 Kephart/Masa North Carolina nomenclature map
Volume 3, issue 2
September 2009
Item #401002
$5.95
A time of war, a time of peace: Conscientious objectors
The salamander capital of the world
The heirloom apples of our eye
Vultures: On the wings of death
Laura Thornburgh
In the nick of time: Joseph S. Hall recordings
Horace Kephart: The complete outdoorsman
Volume 4, issue 1
March 2010
Item #401003
$7.95
A reluctant “ultra hiker” tackles the Smokies’ Mountains-to-Sea Trail
The life, legs, and legacy of photographer Albert “Dutch” Roth
The history of Cades Cove according to daffodils
Special Cades Cove daffodil sites foldout map
Last man in Elkmont: The story of Lem Ownby
From the Mountain Kitchen: Lard in Smokies cooking Watching for warblers
Upon summer’s green pastures: Herding in the Smokies
The puzzle tree
The Map Room: 1930 Kephart/Masa North Carolina nomenclature map
Volume 4, issue 2
September 2010
Item #401004
$6.95
Mayna Avent: Artist in the woods
Mighty mountain winds
LeConte Lodge: Something unusual in hotel accommodations
Cataloochee’s churches in the wildwood
The ash tree
Volume 5, issue 1
March 2011
Item #401005
$6.95
Glenn Cardwell: The squire of Greenbrier Sex, lies, and orchids
Smoky Mountain medicine women
Hazel Creek: An angler’s backside of heaven
The great escape: Wild hogs and wild times on Hooper Bald
The Map Room: 1935 Greenbrier/Indian Camp structures
Horace Kephart: Why I live in North Carolina
Volume 5, issue 2
September 2011
Item #401006
$6.95
Saving our Smokies
Copperheads: The beauty of the beast
Thanks giving: A November adventure on the AT
Three professors and a mule
The man who saved history: H. C. Wilburn
From the Mountain Kitchen: Horace Kephart recipes
The Map Room: 1928–30 US Geological Survey map
Volume 6, issue 1
March 2012
Item #401007
$6.95
The Civil War battle for Gatlinburg
Horace Kephart goes Hollywood
The great pretenders: Butterfly deceit in the Smokies
Weaving a livelihood in the Smokies
Mountain arts: The nature paintings of Charles H. Collum
On top of the world
Volume 6, issue 2
September 2012
Item #401008
$6.95
The elk whisperers
Operation blizzard
Ella V. Costner: A life without fear
Children of the night (and sometimes day)
Volume 7, issue 1
March 2013
Item #401009
$6.95
Delighting in dogwoods
Mountain moonshine revival
How an Indian makes his blow-gun Colonel George W. Kirk: Villain or hero?
On the trail of Benton MacKaye—again
The Map Room: Cove hardwood forests
Volume 7, issue 2
September 2013
Item #401010
$6.95
Measuring mountains
Nance Dude: The boogeywoman of the Smokies
Breathing in the Smokies
Which house was the grandest?
Volume 8, issue 1
March 2014
Item #401011
$6.95
From six billion to one
I think you saw a skink
The Newfound Gap Road yesterday and today
A voice in the wilderness: The miracle of Harvey Broome
The Map Room: 1936 illustrated map by H. P. Ijams
Volume 8, issue 2
September 2014
Item #401012
$6.95
The building of Fontana Dam
Margaret Stevenson: The woman who loved a mountain
Free and easy: Hawks of the Great Smoky Mountains
Ranger Stories: Park Ranger Johnny Morrell
Fall wildflowers: An underappreciated extravaganza
Volume 9, issue 1
March 2015
Item #401013
$6.95
The 900 miler club
Phantom felines
A crowning achievement: Building the tower atop Clingmans Dome
Rewilding the American chestnut
The Map Room: Clingmans Dome
The Smokies’ winter wren: Operatic pixie of the highlands
Volume 9, issue 2
September 2015
Item #401014
$6.95
Wagons without wheels: The humble land sled
Life in the canopy
Deadly derecho
Wilma Dykeman: A voice for the Smokies (and humankind)
Christmas in Cades Cove
From the artifact collection
Volume 10, issue 1
Special National Parks Centennial Issue
March 2016
Item #401015
$6.95
The National Park Service turns 100 A centennial interview with Superintendent Cassius Cash Smokies heroes: The 100 most influential people
From the artifact collection: The NPS Collections Preservation Center
Winged messenger airmails the news: A national park is born!
Volume 10, issue 2
Special National Parks Centennial Issue
September 2016
Item #401016
$6.95
Wintering on Mount Le Conte
Beaches, battlefields, and Blue Ridge Mountains
Charles Grossman, hoarder of history
Tragedy on the Appalachian Trail
Vampires and zombies of the flora kind
Volume 11, issue 1
March 2017
Item #401017
$6.95
Monkey trial fever
Night riders from hell: White caps in Sevier County
Ritter lumber company comes to Hazel Creek
Here be dragons: Dragonflies and damselflies of the Smokies
Animal tails
A season of fires
Volume 11, issue 2
September 2017
Item #401018
$6.95
Anne Davis: Dreamer, questioner, doer Hellbender salamanders
Paul Fink: Forgotten founding father of the Smokies? Bats incredible!
Doris Ulmann: A portrait in dignity
The chill of death
Volume 12, issue 1
Spring 2018
Item #401019
$6.95
The magic of rhododendrons
A day in the life of Heath Bailey, park archaeologist
Living “on own account” in Oconaluftee
The building of the Davis-Queen House
How the first salamanders were collected in the Smokies Summers in Old Elkmont Town
Volume 12, issue 2
Fall 2018
Item #401020
$9.95
Foothills Parkway: The Missing Link
Ethnologist and Cherokee scholar James Mooney
Year of the Bird
Rescue on the Old Settlers Trail
Elkmont cabins preserved
Discover Life in America
Outpost on Mount Le Conte
Favorites from the park archives
Tiny, squeaky forest gliders
Bad news bears
Willa of the Wood: Preview of new best seller set in the Smokies
Volume 13, issue 1
Spring 2019
Item #401021
$9.95
Horace Kephart dreamt of a park in the Smokies Instruments and the luthiers who craft them
Tremont celebrates 50 years of outdoor learning
Into the wild water: Trout fishing in the Smokies
What’s up with changes in the park’s climate?
The women who founded Pi Beta Phi Settlement School
Decoration Day at the North Shore cemeteries
Wildlife mortality on regional roads reaches critical level
Best laid plans for the park that didn’t pan out
Why entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is free
Volume 13, issue 2
Fall 2019
Item #401022
$9.95
Elk on the move
Species-a-Day calendar preview
Species in recovery from the 2016 wildfires
Experience Your Smokies turns 20
Rockefeller Junior’s gift to Appalachia
Tim Line and Mount Le Conte
A Union soldier’s daring escape
Artists and artisans of Gatlinburg
Early tourism in the Smokies region
Photographing the Smokies: What, when, where, and how Balladry in the Smokies
So long, Michael Montgomery
Lost and found: Janet McCue in the Smokies
Famous
African
Human–bear conflict zone
iNaturalist: SnapIt & MapIt
Roosevelt’s Smokies visit
Iconic
Volume 14, issue 1
Spring 2020
Item #401023
$9.95
What is PSAR?
African Americans in the Smokies
Our park’s famous fireflies
Roosevelt’s first visit
Behind the human-bear conflict
The history of Cable Mill Mindfulness and photography
iNaturalist: SnapIt & MapIt
Mark Cathey, sportsman for the ages
The wrath of grapes in GSMNP My favorite hike
Volume 14, issue 2
Fall 2020
Item #401024
$8.95
Interview with the superintendents
Fraser firs making a comeback
Little Greenbrier School programs turn 50
Profile: Retired ranger Bud Cantrell
Stories behind species discovery
Rebecca Harding Davis remembered
Singing Creek: Preview of new GSMA children’s book
Rhododendron reflections at The Purchase
Twin
Gatlinburg
New
Volume 15, issue 1
Spring 2021
Item #401025 $8.95
Are we loving the park to death? Cycling in Cades Cove
The Ellisons: George and Elizabeth Smoky Mountain BearWise Community Taskforce
Twin Creeks Science and Education Center
Artists and artisans of the Smokies part two Ernie Pyle’s Gatlinburg visit A Search for Safe Passage preview
We all belong here: Latria Graham article exerpt
Celebrating 20 years of elk
Celebrating 20 years of elk
Ancient, mysterious grassy balds
Ancient, mysterious grassy balds
Eastern Band of Cherokee novel
Band of Cherokee novel
New Smokies salamander species
New Smokies salamander species
Maintaining the park’s cemeteries
Maintaining the park’s cemeteries
Volume 15, issue 2
Fall 2021
Item #401026
$8.95
Zen and the art of backcountry management
Brook trout: A Galápagos in the Smokies
Breathing easier with air quality improvements
Return of the elk
Ancient wonders: grassy balds
Cherokee novelist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Salamander species separation
Maintaining park cemeteries: A monumental task
Black
Black
Making
Making
Keeping
Keeping
Volume 16, issue 1 Spring 2022
Item #401027
$8.95
Can bears go back into the wild?
Who are the Smokies Most Wanted?
GSMA’s new Sepia Tones podcast series
Parks as Classrooms yesterday and today
The rules of bear country
Keeping invasives out of the park Veterans rest in honor
Hiking the Smokies trails FAST
Map Corner: A Smoky Mountain place names adventure
Old-growth forests
Old-growth forests
Fungi, mushrooms, and mycelia
Fungi, mushrooms, and mycelia
Backcountry campsites
Backcountry campsites
Early Smokies filmmakers
Early Smokies filmmakers
Trail maintenance in GSMNP
Trail maintenance in GSMNP
Safe Passage for wildlife
Safe Passage wildlife
Volume 16, issue 2
Fall 2022
Item #401028
$10.95
Query: Interview with Lisa Horstman
Visibility: African American Experiences in the Smokies
Safe Passage: Reconnecting a living landscape
Smokies Most Wanted project profile part two
Backcountry campsite reservations
Trails Forever program
The last best wildwoods
Mushrooms of the mountains
Preserving the park’s fist moving pictures
Map Corner: 1920 Champion Fibre operations
Food of the Smokies: Apple stack cake
Volume 17, issue 1
Spring 2023
Item #401029
$11.95
Visibility: Mingus and West family histories
Smokies Most Wanted: Three species to look for Park gets behind the mule Agents of deliverance: Search and rescue
The advent of park museums and associations
Henry Lix: Founder of GSMNHA
A tribute to Terry Maddox
Retrospective interview with Kemp, Cave, and Maddox
Evolution of park stores
Barry Hipps yesterday and today
Volume 17, issue 2
Fall 2023
Item #401030
$11.95
Smokies Most Wanted: Three invasive species
Food of the Smokies: Cornbread from our first publication
Map Corner: 1953 park visitor map
Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association turns 100
The secret lives of shrews and moles
The powerful gift of fire A special stamp
The 70th anniversary timeline Critter comebacks
The park has an archive? Fire at association headquarters
The park’s four big nonprofit helpers
Board chair retrospective: Kelly Leonard and Bill Hart
How the legacy fund came about
Volume 18, issue 1
Spring 2024
Item #401031
$11.99
Smokies Most Wanted: How your wildflower photos can make a difference Food of the Smokies: Kilt Lettuce
Map Corner: Chapter 1 of Letters from the Smokies
Parting Poem: Salamander
Endangered plants and the people protecting them A century in the Smokies Bears, bears everywhere
Off the beaten path
Lost in the Smokies
NPS officials visit the Smokies
Smokies Life Journal (ISSN 2996-282X) is published semi-annually by Smokies Life, a nonprofit organization assisting Great Smoky Mountains National Park since 1953.
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