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Shaw (Wendell) Collection On Walter Arnold, 1800-1981, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Shaw (Wendell) Collection On Walter Arnold, 1800-1981, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Walter Arnold was born in 1894 in Willimantic, Maine, the son of Alonzo and Alice Arnold. As a young man Walter hunted, trapped and guided with his father. After service in World War I, he started a mail order business, selling trapping supplies and animal trapping scents and lures nationwide.
Shaw and Arnold were good friends and hunting buddies for over twenty years. They wrote letters to each other frequently from 1959-1980 discussing their day-to-day life and the hunting or trapping adventures they shared together.
This collection includes many letters written between Wendell Shaw and Walter Arnold (See: SpC MS …