Collected Publications
name: label: Collection Author
content: Shaffer, Earl V., 1918-2002
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content: Earl Shaffer Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0828, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains a wide variety of publications saved and or collected by Shaffer and/or his family.  Perhaps one of the most important of these items is an inscribed copy of the article by Benton MacKaye advocating the creation of the Appalachian Trail.  This series also contains copies of National Geographic and other magazines that ran articles about Shaffer focusing on his 1948 and 1998 thru hikes.  This series is arranged chronologically.