Lake and Forest As I Have Known Them
by Barker, F.C., Captain
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), pictorial green cloth. Frontis. port., [4], 230 pp., 15 b&w plates. CONDITION: Near fine in very good dust jacket with some fading and toning at edges and a few small losses at corners. First edition, later printing (but same year). This work is based on Barker's time as a steamboat captain, sporting camp owner, river driver, etc. in Maine's Rangeley Lakes region. Chapters include "The Indian Chief Metalluk," "First Experience in Logging," "Guiding Days," "Camp Bemis and the Birches," "Experiences on the Ice," "Camp Life as it Was," and "Some Old-Time Lumbermen's Songs." Barker also wrote Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River (1882).
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- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company (US)
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- 6202
- Title
- Lake and Forest As I Have Known Them
- Author
- Barker, F.C., Captain
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1903
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James Arsenault & Company
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Arrowsic, Maine
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