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“…This spring and summer, the Grey Cat or Siberia Lynx, troubled us very much … He was lying partly hid, and I did not perceive him until I came near stepping upon him, when he suddenly started up, and I as soon sprang back to find something to defend myself with…. The dog instantly seized him, but the cat soon extricated himself, by tearing him with his claws, which he seemed to know how to apply very actively …”Lucy Crawford was a pioneer of the White Mountains who in 1848 authored "A History of the White Mountains" which is in reality mostly an autobiography of her husband pioneer Ethan Allen Crawford, apparently dictated in large part by him to his wife, the nominal author. It is full of interesting information, simply and often quaintly set down about the early days. As the book states:"It may be an inquiry, How these things have become to be written? Lucy had been advised to keep a memorandum of things as they occurred, for there seemed to be something very extraordinary in our affairs in life, which was an inducement for her labor, in which she has taken great pleasure, in order to be able to show the public our way of trying to get a living, by dealing honestly with men, and having a clean conscience as regards my management with mankind."Ethan's family moved to the White Mountains prior to 1800 when he was quite young and the autobiography starts from this time period up to 1848, and the book contains many interesting anecdotes of the hardships of pioneer life in this mountainous region.Ethan relates his successes a trapper:"This fall we caught about seventy-five of these sable, for which I realized nearly one dollar apiece, and felt quite satisfied for our work. We made a considerable havoc among the wild animals, and we made a handsome profit from them, besides clearing the woods of some pernicious ones."Another interesting anecdote reads:"...there came two gentlemen to my father's, and engaged him to go with them to the top of Mount Washington, where they placed an inscription, in Latin, which was engraved on a brass plate, and nailed it on a rock; they likewise filled a bottle and put it in a rock..."In describing the provisions necessary for survival in the wilderness the book relates:"I had laid in a good store of provisions for my family's use, as we were not always sure of a crop, and depended on buying. We had a small store pretty well filled with salt and salt fish. I had bought forty dollars’ worth of wheat and forty of pork. I had made two thirds of a barrel of maple sugar. ... The moose and deer, at the same time, affording them a tolerably supply of wild meat, and their white and rock maple trees, an abundance of excellent sugar. The rivers and ponds were also well stored with wild geese, ducks and fish, of various kinds. "As the book relates, raising livestock was a risky proposition:"Bears remained numerous for a long time and are yet somewhat plenty. These animals often proved an intolerable nuisance to the farmers, destroying their sheep, hogs and other creatures. One night in the summer of 1800, Mr. Willey was waked from his sleep by the noise of his sheep running furiously by his house. Springing from his bed to a window, he discovered by the light of the moon, an enormous bear in close pursuit of them...."

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Title: The history of the White Mountains : from the first settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket.<br /><br />Author: Lucy Crawford<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP04300600<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG03-B319<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18460101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: Told in the first person as if written by her husband, Ethan Allen Crawford.<br /><br />Collation: 204 p<br /><br />

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