Books with title The Penobscot

"Remarkable book...intensified flavors and qualities of river life such as exists in no other book." -Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (2005)"Eckstorm was...a naturalist...wilderness guide...highly regarded as an authority on Maine's Penobscot people." -Thoreau in His Own Time (2012)"Eckstorm's interest in life in the Maine woods—particularly the life of the river drivers who worked for the lumber industry along the Penobscot River —provided the impetus for The Penobscot Man." -American Folklore (2004)"Sought to correct some misunderstandings...about Maine resulting from Henry David Thoreau's publication of The Maine Woods." -Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge (2013)Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) was an American writer, ornithologist and folklorist. In "The Pendebscot Man" Fannie Hardy Eckstorm has given us a collection of stories of the Maine river men. With a loyal hand she has chronicled some of the deeds which exalted to heroism those lives of toil and hardship. Without idealization she has recorded them, but in the honest colors of reality; and these tales assume for us a new significance because their characters actually lived and breathed, and because these deeds of truest courage were performed without a thought of their heroism, without a suspicion that they were to be set forth in printed page.The author knows well of what she writes, and her work is endowed with finest sympathy, and the full understanding of long familiarity. Her stories have that revealing, spiritual quality, so that the reader sees not only the deed, but the soul of the man who does it. The inner and the outer life are both made manifest.CONTENTSI. Lugging Boat On Sowadnehunk II. The Grim Tale Of Larry Connors III. Hymns Before Battle IV. The Death Of Thoreau's Guide V. The Gray Rock Of Abol VI. A Clump Of Posies VII. Working Nights VIII. The Naughty Pride Of Black Sebat And Others IX. Rescue X. "joyfully"

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Excerpt from The Penobscot ManThe question is sometimes asked why a state like Maine, so sparsely settled, poor, weak in all external aids, can send forth such throngs of masterful men, who, east and west, step to the front to lead, direct, and do. We who were brought up among pine-trees and granite know the secret of their success. It comes not wholly by tak ing thought: it is in the blood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTORY The question is sometimes asked why a state like Maine, so sparsely settled, poor, weak in all external aids, can send forth such throngs of masterful men, who, east and west, step to the front to lead, direct, and do. We who were brought up among pine-trees and granite know the secret of their success. It comes not wholly by taking thought: it is in the blood. Here are stories of men, the kind we have yet a-plenty, who die unknown and unnoticed; and every tale is a true one, -- not the chance report of strangers, the gleanings of recent acquaintance, the aftermath of hearsay, the enlargements of a fading tradition; but the tales of men who tended me in babyhood, who crooned to me old slumber-songs, who brought me gifts from the woods, who wrought me little keepsakes, or amused my childish hours, -- stories which, having gathered them from this one and that one who saw the deed, I have bound into a garland to lay upon their graves. Such tales are numberless; choice becomes invidious unless rigidly limited, and therefore, since the old West Branch Drive is no more, I have chosen solely among its members, and have strung these tales, like beads of remembrance, upon one thread, -- of which we who love it never tire, -- the River. These are stories told with little art. In the long run, the books that lie closest to the facts have the advantage. It is lovely to be beautiful, but it is essential to be true. The events are actual occurrences; the names, real names; the places any one may see at any time. Yet each story is not merely personal and solitary, but illustrates typically some trait of the whole class. Their virtues are not magnified, their faults are not denied; in black and white, for good or evil, they stand here as...