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Maine History Documents

2018

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Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 09: Millinocket Station North To Basin Ponds, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 09: Millinocket Station North To Basin Ponds, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 04: Millinocket Stream And Millinocket Lake Watershed, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 04: Millinocket Stream And Millinocket Lake Watershed, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 08: Fisk’S Hotel At Nicatou Up The West Branch To Ripogenous Lake, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 08: Fisk’S Hotel At Nicatou Up The West Branch To Ripogenous Lake, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 11: On Chief Jo-Mary’S Lands, And Epilogue, Sources Of Information, Names And Related Information, And Glossary, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 11: On Chief Jo-Mary’S Lands, And Epilogue, Sources Of Information, Names And Related Information, And Glossary, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin's Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 01: A Regional Context, With Table Of Contents, Introduction, And Acknowledgements, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin's Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 01: A Regional Context, With Table Of Contents, Introduction, And Acknowledgements, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 07: Jo-Mary Lakes Watershed, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 07: Jo-Mary Lakes Watershed, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 took adventurous persons to fishing and hunting locations where they used tents or small trapper’s camps or logging camps. By the early 1890s their camps became known as sporting camps. With few exceptions, I have included structures built through 1920.

The text moves the reader upstream beginning where the Penobscot River forks at Nicatou Island with the East Branch leading north and the West Branch heading west-northwest. The reader travels up the West Branch into the Lower …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 03: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River: Ambajejus Falls To Ripogenus Dam, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 03: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River: Ambajejus Falls To Ripogenus Dam, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 10: North From The Stinchfield And Heath Camp At Pemadumcook Lake On Nahmakanta Stream, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 10: North From The Stinchfield And Heath Camp At Pemadumcook Lake On Nahmakanta Stream, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 06: Nahmakanta Stream And Lake Watershed, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 06: Nahmakanta Stream And Lake Watershed, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 05: The Debsconeag Lakes Watershed, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 05: The Debsconeag Lakes Watershed, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons). The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …


Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 02: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River: Nicatou Island To Ambajejus Falls, William W. Geller Jan 2018

Within Katahdin’S Realm: Log Drives And Sporting Camps - Chapter 02: The West Branch Of The Penobscot River: Nicatou Island To Ambajejus Falls, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

This book’s historical journey on Maine’s West Branch of the Penobscot River and its tributaries is in two parts, logging (chapters 1-7) and sporting camps (chapters 8-11), all of which Fogler Library hosts at its Digital Commons. The journey starts in 1825 when the first loggers began cutting along the river and driving their logs more than 70 river miles to the Bangor sawmills. It ends 151 years later in 1976, the year of the last drive.

Maine’s sporting camp history in this region started with enterprising loggers and teamsters who were also trappers and guides who beginning about 1870 …