![]() ![]() About Gatlinburg and The Great Smokies In the Fall of 1940 Ernie Pyle and his wife Jerry came to Gatlinburg were he wrote 11 columns for Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance about the town, the native people and a trip he took to LeConte. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa. entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style to his wartime reports, first from the home front, and later from the European and pacific theatres. From 1935 through 1941 he traveled throughout the United States, writing about rural towns and their inhabitants. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. About Ernie Pyle Ernest Taylor Pyle (Aug– April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist. Vintage book is in good condition, text is quite clean with minimal age-toning, cover has some minor wear and light foxing. This 1951 Brochure is titled Gatlinburg and The Great Smokies by Ernie Pyle Published by The Mountain Press, 27 pgs. ![]()
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