Download or read book A Fall Fur Hunt in Maine written by Manly Hardy and published by Jeremiah Wood. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, legendary Maine naturalist, outdoorsman and fur buyer Manly Hardy tells of his two-month long trapping trip with Rufus Philbrook in the headwaters of the Allagash and Penobscot rivers in 1859. The two young men built a cabin near Caucomgomoc Lake and ran trap lines for marten, fisher, lynx, beaver, otter, mink, muskrat and bear. From the elaborate half-pitch camp with an open fireplace and wooden 'chimney' to intricate hand-crafted deadfall traps for marten and fisher, homemade fur stretchers and clothing, encounters with Indians, ancient trails, active lumbermen and old logging camps, and keen observations of the weather and geography, the story is nothing short of fascinating.
Download or read book A Fall Fur hunt from Maine to New Brunswick Canada written by William B. Krohn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manly Hardy 1832 1910 written by Manly Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine s Hunting Past written by Donald A. Wilson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine has long been a well-known and frequently visited hunting region. Long ago, moose and caribou were abundant and as time passed, trappers have been able to earn a decent living pursuing choice and prized fur-bearing animals. Small game and waterfowl populations remained fairly stable over the years and have continued to increase in popularity. However, as large areas of habitat were cleared for timber, larger animals began to disappear and opulations dwindled. Trapping has since become a less favorable mode of producing income because of the low prices offered for native and raw fur. Maine's Hunting Past captures the pursuit of wild animals through a century of documentation. Since about 1850, animals have been taken for sport, for food, and for their hides. Hunting has long been not only a sport but also an industry, resulting in the increase and growth of sporting camps and an expanding number of guides. Maine's Hunting Past highlights favorite regions, featuring famous sporting camps and well-known guides. Big game, small game, upland birds, waterfowl, furbearers, and numerous photographs of trophy animals and large bag limits are all included.
Download or read book Old Tales of the Maine Woods written by Steve Pinkham and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his phenomenal collection of over 22,000 articles and stories of the Maine Woods, Steve Pinkham has selected many of the most exciting and old hunting and fishing tales, as well as stories of animal encounters, lumbering, canoe trips, and even a few ghost stories for this book. Ranging from 1849 to 1913, the book covers the Maine Woods from Magalloway to Moosehead, and Mopang to Madawaska. Most people know that Thoreau went to Maine several times, wrote eloquently about his travels and coined the phrase "Maine Woods." Now for the first time the reader will get to read stories by many of the other known and unknown men and women who also travelled to northern Maine and wrote about their experiences or penned fictional stories set in the backwoods. Included are brief biographies and portraits of the known writers. For the many anonymous authors, Pinkham has included appropriate pictures of the region where the story took place and other pertinent information from his vast sources. Visit the website at: www.oldtalesofthemainewoods.com Steve Pinkham grew up in western Maine, hearing old stories of hunting and fishing, and has spent much of his life hiking, paddling and discovering the many wonderful places in the backwoods of Maine. Having spent the past ten years searching for articles and books, following up on clues, and spending a vast amount of hours in libraries and historical societies, he published his first book, Mountains of Maine in 2009. Selecting from his vast collection for this book, he now spends his time writing and publishing articles and books about the Maine Woods from his home in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Download or read book Walter Arnold Maine Trapper written by Jeremiah Wood and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Arnold (1894-1980) was one of the last in a long line of independent fur trappers from the mountain man era. Living most of his life in the woods of Maine, Arnold spent his early decades guiding sportsmen in the summer and trapping furbearers in winter, on foot out of remote cabins deep in the Maine woods.Arnold built a reputation in the trapping industry through the dozens of articles he wrote in national outdoor magazines, particularly his writings in Fur-Fish-Game magazine from the 1930's to the 1950's. He also manufactured trapping lures and sold scents and ingredients to trappers throughout North America. In his later years, Walter Arnold sold his business and most of his possessions, and retreated to a full time life in the Maine woods, in a trapping cabin only accessible by airplane. It was these years that Arnold gained nationwide popularity as the last woods hermit from a bygone era. In this book, I revisit many of the stories Walter Arnold published in the old days and provide a modern perspective for those of us still fascinated by a traditional lifestyle that's all but gone today.
Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He scaled peaks, paddled a canoe, and dined on hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes, he acutely observed the rich flora and fauna, as well as the few people he met dotting the landscape, like lumberers, boat-men, and the Abnaki Indians. The Maine Woods is an American classic, a voyage into nature and the heart of early America.
Download or read book Your Maine Lands written by Tom Hanrahan and published by Polar Bear. This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On behalf of Maine's Department of Conservation, a master Maine guide introduces the free amenities of the nearly one million acres of Maine's public lands, including hunting and fishing, with advice on how to prepare for a visit to the North Maine Woods"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book In the Maine Woods written by Winfield Martin Thompson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...If the sportsman is skilled enough to follow silently the tracks made in the new snow he will get his deer or moose. If he is unskilled in the art of still hunting he will not. The animal may go for some miles through the thickest part of the woods round about, passing over boggy places, through dense growth of small trees and bushes, over fallen trees, through cedar swamps, everywhere, in fact, but where the hunter would like to have him go, that is, in the more open places. Follow the track he must if he would get the deer, and to follow it noiselessly is an art one does not acquire in a day. The snapping of a twig, the breaking of a 1 dry branch under the snow, a cough or sneeze, any unusual noise, will send the fleet-footed deer or moose off at his best pace, and the hunt for that particular animal is necessarily off. Still hunting as practised in Maine calls for the best traits of the sportsman. Patience and endurance must be his, for though the game is plenty enough to suit the most exacting, nature has endowed it with senses more acute than man's with which to care for itself. Superior sight, smell and hear-ing are on the side of the animal. So too are ways of get-ting through the forest. A deer or moose will pass silently through underbrush or blown down trees (known locally as "blowdowns "), where a man, in making the same passage, would crash along with a noise that to him sounds like that of a heavy freight train. To add to the hunter's feeling Features that he is the noisiest living thing in the forest, the intense of Still stillness of the woods makes all sound appear louder than it Hunting, really is. On still, frosty days, when there is no wind to stir the trees, the very silence is noisy. It roars in the ears...
Download or read book City Boys in the Woods written by Henry P. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from City Boys in the Woods: Or a Trapping Venture in Maine Books of hunting and trapping adventure for the young are superabundant. But whence do most of them derive their inspiration? Certainly not from nature. The toils and privations which are the certain and continuous daily incidents of such a life are usually glozed over or ignored altogether, while purely imaginary, or at best very infrequent, cases of good-fortune are grouped together and follow one another as though of every-day occurrence. The impression so produced on the minds of the young is an absolutely false impression. That it is pernicious as well, the police records of every large city bear witness. Hardly a week passes in which lads, beguiled by such books, are not arrested on their way to kill Indians and hunt buffaloes in the far West. This book is the outcome of a suggestion that a story truthfully portraying the actual life of the hunter and trapper would be timely. The author has succeeded or failed in his purpose, in the exact proportion in which he succeeds or fails in impressing on the minds of his readers the truth that a special education is as necessary to a life in the wilderness as it is to navigate that other wilderness the boundless ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Stranger in the Woods written by Michael Finkel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
Download or read book The Buried Treasures of Maine written by C. J. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the North Woods of Maine written by Elmer Erwin Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Fish and Hunt in Maine written by Edmund Ware Smith and published by Yankee Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories capture the natural beauty of the Maine woods and the lives and experiences of Maine woodsmen, hunters, fishermen, and other outdoorsmen
Download or read book Becoming Teddy Roosevelt written by Andrew Vietze and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational tale of friendship and determination also sheds new light on the role of the mentor's mentor. Discover why this friendship was so crucial to Roosevelt's development as a man and a president-and why it still matters today.
Download or read book More Old Tales of the Maine Woods written by Steve Pinkham and published by Oldtalesofthemainewoods.com. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his phenomenal collection of over 25,000 articles and stories of the Maine Woods, Steve Pinkham has selected more of the most exciting old hunting and fishing tales, as well as stories of animal encounters, lumbering, canoe trips and tall tales for this sequel to Old Tales of the Maine Woods. Ranging from 1845 to 1905, this book also covers the Maine Woods from Magalloway to Moosehead and Mopang to Madawaska. Most people know that Thoreau went to Maine several times, wrote eloquently about his travels and coined the phrase "Maine Woods." Now for the reader will get to read more stories by many more known and unknown men and women who also travelled to northern Maine and wrote about their experiences of penned fictional stories set in the backwoods. Included are brief biographies and portraits of the known writers. For the unknown authors, Pinkham has included appropriate pictures. In his first volume, Pinkham included histories of each region; for this volume he has included many early bits of fascinating information for each chapter. www.oldtalesofthemainewoods.com Steve Pinkham grew up in western Maine, hearing old stories of hunting and fishing, and has spent much of his life hiking, paddling, and discovering the many wonderful places in the backwoods of Maine. Having spent the past twelve years searching for articles and books, following up on clues, and spending a vast amount of hours in libraries and historical societies, he published his first book, Mountains of Maine in 2009 and his second book, Old Tales of the Maine Woods, in 2012. Selecting from his vast collection for this book, he now spends his time writing and publishing articles and books about the Maine Woods from his home in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Download or read book Bad Little Falls written by Paul Doiron and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned to a rustic cabin during a blizzard, Maine game warden Mike Bowdich embarks on a dangerous investigation involving a notorious drug dealer, a beautiful woman with a dark past, and her troubled young son.
