The Penobscot Man (Classic Reprint)

The Penobscot Man (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780259530275

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Excerpt from The Penobscot Man 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 tak ing thought: it is in the blood. 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.

David Libbey

David Libbey PDF

Author: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780666003188

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Excerpt from David Libbey: Penobscot Woodman and River-Driver The thoroughbred Maine woods man has behind him at least three generations of pioneer ancestors. David Libbey had six. Therefore to dismiss his origins with the bare statement that he was the son of a British soldier would be misrepre scutation. He was an American yeoman of the purest stock. 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.

The Penobscot Man - Life and Death on a Maine River

The Penobscot Man - Life and Death on a Maine River PDF

Author: Tommy Carbone

Publisher:

Published: 2022-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781954048218

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Dust Jacket Commemorative Hardcover Edition..A New Updated Edition with New Stories, Lumbermen Ballads, and Photos...* * *"These are strange stories, but they well up out of the hearts of men, and in them are the issues of life. Men do not perish alone, unknown, forsaken, forgotten. The constitution of the universe forbids. The truth about them must leap out some time, and be written on the skies like the flashes of the midnight Aurora; somewhere it is to be known what they were, where they failed, wherein they made their conquests, - their treachery, their faithfulness - their cowardice, their courage - their shamelessness, their honor - but most of all and longest enduring, their better parts." Fannie Hardy Eckstorm* * * A 1904 reviewer of the book in The Literary World wrote, "It seems to us that 'The Penobscot Man' should in twenty-five years, be a valuable 'human document,' for the life, the men, and the deeds, ring true."* * * Tommy wrote, "The stories in this book represent an important part of Maine history and the people who made that history. Eckstorm knew this when she was writing, and she anticipated that documenting this way of life would be important before it was lost. She was correct and I am pleased to release this book for lovers of history and the great storytelling. The editing of this book has been the most challenging of my projects to date for releasing a Maine classic and I am sure you will enjoy the stories as much as I have enjoyed updating them."* * * This differentiated book now includes stories about Jack Mann and John Ross, two of Maine's most famous rivermen. To this edition, Carbone has added an appendix that analyzes Eckstorm's journal notes, never before released, that tell more of the renegade poacher that threated to kill Fannie Hardy and her father, Manly.

The Penobscot Man

The Penobscot Man PDF

Author: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781230467221

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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...

Sketches of the Town of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine

Sketches of the Town of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine PDF

Author: David Norton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780265571767

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Excerpt from Sketches of the Town of Old Town, Penobscot County, Maine: From Its Earliest Settlement, to 1879; With Biographical Sketches The author and compiler of these Sketches deems it proper, -not from any positive motive of egotism, although self is a very permeating sentiment, but more particularly to show the circumstances under which these reminiscences have been compiled, and further the opportunity he may have had for becoming acquainted with facts and information in regard to Old Town history. 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.