by Hezekiah Bascom (Author)

The little town of Tellico Plains, Tennessee, lies snugly against the Appalachian Mountains and the Cherokee National Forest to the south and east. In the late 1950's, the town's civic leaders hatched a plan to call attention to the town's relative isolation and its lack of access across the mountains into North Carolina. The plan was to organize an old-fashioned wagon train across the mountains to Murphy, North Carolina. The wagon train left Tellico Plains on July 4 each year, and it garnered national media attention. Within only a few years, the wagon train included hundreds of people who drove wagons and rode horseback on the arduous trip.

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