George Masa’s life journey carried him across an ocean and landed him in Asheville. But it was a passion for photography that drove him to explore Western North Carolina’s roughest wilderness. In creating a visual record of the pristine Appalachian Mountains during the early 1900s, he managed to help protect much of them for generations to come.
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PHOTO GRAPHS COURTESY ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF ART FROM THE CATALOOCHEE RANCH COLLECTION