In Fair Aroostook
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Title
In Fair Aroostook
Description
Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty."
Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of landscapes, industries, and peoples there, and his perception of Scandinavian and French Acadian heritage in that region. Illustrated with photographs. Reprinted in 1973 by the Madawaska Historical Society. Full text available @ Google Books.
Contains the following chapters:
Frontispiece - Grand Falls on the St. John
Chapter 1 - The Entrance into Maine's Great Game and Garden County
Chapter 2 - Ashland and its Great Saw-mill - The Impounding of a Moose
Chapter 3 - Fish River Waters - Portage Lake and Camp Iverson
Chapter 4 - Into Maine's Acadia -The Fish of the Eagle Lake
Chapter 5 - Fort Kent - Its Blockhouse and Training School - The Aroostook War
Chapter 6 - More of the Acadians - The Girls of the Training School - "Madawaska" - The Story of the Acadians
Chapter 7 - From Over the Sea - New Sweden - The Fruitage of a Great Colonization Idea
Chapter 8 - Agriculture - The Backbone of Aroostook Prosperity - Coming Towns of the County - L'envoi
Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of landscapes, industries, and peoples there, and his perception of Scandinavian and French Acadian heritage in that region. Illustrated with photographs. Reprinted in 1973 by the Madawaska Historical Society. Full text available @ Google Books.
Contains the following chapters:
Frontispiece - Grand Falls on the St. John
Chapter 1 - The Entrance into Maine's Great Game and Garden County
Chapter 2 - Ashland and its Great Saw-mill - The Impounding of a Moose
Chapter 3 - Fish River Waters - Portage Lake and Camp Iverson
Chapter 4 - Into Maine's Acadia -The Fish of the Eagle Lake
Chapter 5 - Fort Kent - Its Blockhouse and Training School - The Aroostook War
Chapter 6 - More of the Acadians - The Girls of the Training School - "Madawaska" - The Story of the Acadians
Chapter 7 - From Over the Sea - New Sweden - The Fruitage of a Great Colonization Idea
Chapter 8 - Agriculture - The Backbone of Aroostook Prosperity - Coming Towns of the County - L'envoi
Creator
Pullen, Clarence
Source
Publisher
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company
Date
1902
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
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1902; Aroostook County, Maine
Contribution Form
Zotero
Call Number
Num Pages
94
Place
Bangor, Maine
Publisher
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company
URL
In Fair Aroostook... @ Google Books
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