Michael R. Bradley - Great Smokies Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind Historys Mysteries

Michael R. Bradley taught US history at Motlow College in Lynchburg, Tennessee, from 1970 to 2006. He has hiked and camped in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for sixty years, and is now taking his grandson into the park for his first hikes. Bradley is the author of three other Globe Pequot titles: It Happened in the Great Smokies, It Happened in the Revolutionary War, and It Happened in the Civil War.

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