Keywords: Maine hunting guides
Item 149919
"Otis" and "Bill," hunting and fishing guides in Washington County, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative
Item 149926
Hunting guide "Bill" driving a wagon over rough corduroy road, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Celluloid negative
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard
The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family
Story
How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman
How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together
