You may obtain further information about this and other areas of the National Park System at the Administration and Museum Building near the main parking area. With the exception of Christmas and New Year’s Day, this building is open daily, with museum hours from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. on weekdays and from 9:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. on Sundays. Park personnel is available at this building to assist individuals and organized groups of visitors. To assure such assistance to large groups, it is advisable that arrangements be made in advance with the superintendent of the park. A beautiful amphitheater is situated a short distance east of the battlefield ridge, near the main park road. An outdoor historical drama on the Battle of Kings Mountain has been presented here in late summer during recent years. Adjoining the park on the east is Kings Mountain State Park where you may picnic and swim in season. [Illustration: _Museum and Administration Building, Kings Mountain National Military Park._] _Related Areas_ Three other areas administered by the National Park Service are related to this park as a result of the sequence of events set in motion by the Battle of Kings Mountain. They are Cowpens National Battlefield Site, near Gaffney, S. C., Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, near Greensboro, N. C., and Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Va. To the west, the Blue Ridge Parkway, also administered by the National Park Service, runs through a part of the country which many of the mountain men crossed en route to the engagement at Kings Mountain. _Administration_ Kings Mountain National Military Park is administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. A superintendent, whose address is P. O. Box 31, Kings Mountain, N. C., is in immediate charge. _Suggested Readings_ Alden, John Richard, _American Revolution 1775-1783_, The New American Nation Series, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1954. Bailey, J. D., _Commander At Kings Mountain_, Gaffney, S. C., 1926. Draper, Lyman C., _Kings Mountain And Its Heroes_, Peter G. Thomson, Cincinnati, 1881; Dauber and Pine Bookshops, New York, 1929. Ferguson, James, _Two Scottish Soldiers, “A Soldier of 1688 and Blenheim, A Soldier Of The American Revolution,”_ D. Wyllie & Son, Aberdeen, 1888. George, J. N., _English Guns and Rifles_, Small Arms Technical Publishing Company, Plantersville, S. C. Scofield, John, “Patrick Ferguson’s Rifle,” _The American Rifleman_, December, 1941. Wallace, Willard M., _Appeal to Arms, “A Military History of the American Revolution,”_ Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951. ★ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1972 0—487-136 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORICAL HANDBOOK SERIES