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“Moonshiners’ Paradise” In the great Smoky Mountains, the Sugarlands was “a country of ill fame, hidden deep in remote gorges, difficult of access, tenanted by a sparse population who preferred to be a law onto themselves. For many a year it had been known on our side as Blockaders’ Glory, which is the same as saying Moonshiners’ Paradise, and we all believed it to be fitly named.” -Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, 1913