With a light boat, a tent, two blankets apiece, a rifle, pistol, fishing apparatus, fifty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of salt pork, and "a sufficient quantity" of sugar, tea, cornmeal, molasses, salt, pepper, beans, and cheese, our four young men traveled to Moosehead Lake, and then began to row and paddle and sail and portage their way towards Katahdin, through rapids, and over the "carrys," before they headed home--down the West Branch when it was still a wild river.
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With a light boat, a tent, two blankets apiece, a rifle, pistol, fishing apparatus, fifty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of salt pork, and "a sufficient quantity" of sugar, tea, cornmeal, molasses, salt, pepper, beans, and cheese, our four young men traveled to Moosehead Lake, and then began to row and paddle and sail and portage their way towards Katahdin, through rapids, and over the "carrys," before they headed home--down the West Branch when it was still a wild river.
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Add this copy of To Katahdin the 1876 Adventures of Four Young Men and a to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Ainsworth Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sumas, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Tilbury House Friends Of The Maine State Museum.
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Very Good+ 0884482170. Card covers show light shelf wear. Gift notation on half-title page.; A bright, solid book. Illustrated with reproduction of pencil drawings and a detailed map of the area.; Trade PB; Oblong 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 107 pages; The real life adventures of the 3 young Sewall brothers and a cousin, Ned Hunt, in 1876 who travelled by train to the railhead at Abbot Village, by wagon to Moosehead Lake, and then by boat to Mt. Katahdin as told by George T. Sewall. A real piece of Maine lore.
