Book #2

The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol. 1)

Robert W. Averill · 1999

Contents

  • Geology of Mt. Moosilauke and Environs — Mary Ann Love Malinconico
  • Ranger’s Rest – 1759 — William Little (1870)
  • About the Names of Moosilauke — William Little (1887)
  • Moose Hillock — Edward Augustus Kendall, Esq. (1809)
  • The Moosehillock — The Farmer’s Monthly Visitor (1839)
  • Up Moosilauke – 1840 — Jack Noon
  • Letter From Warren – 1867 — The Littleton Gazette
  • Moosehillock – What Can Be Seen There — William Little (1870)
  • A Search For the Pleiades — Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880)
  • A Visit to Moosilauke — Concord Monitor (1886)
  • A Storm What Is A Storm — Concord Monitor (1888)
  • Lost on Mt. Moosilauke — Samuel L. Gerry (1890)
  • Forest History – Big Logging Days — J. Willcox Brown
  • The Warren – Woodstock Road — William Little (1893)
  • A Tip-Top Experience on Moosilauke — Ellen E. Webster (1899)
  • Merrill’s Mountain Home — Marjorie S. Davis
  • A May Visit to Moosilauke — Bradford Torrey (1904)
  • The Friendship of the Mountains — Henry J. Kilbourn (1912)
  • The Abandoned Farm — Walter Prichard Eaton (1913)
  • Barn Doors — Walter Prichard Eaton (1913)
  • The Notch At Lost River — Justus Conrad (1917)
  • Over Moosilauke — Percy Stiles (1920)
  • It’s A Long Trail Up Moosilauke — Haydon Jones (1922)
  • A Home On A Hill — Landon G. Rockwell

All the party had climbed Moosilauke before, and there had been a good deal of debate as to whether, for our present purpose, we should leave the mountain path far down, and strike through the forest for the base of the cascades, or whether we should ascend nearly to the summit, and search downward for the uppermost falls.

The latter counsel at length prevailed, and even the point of departure was fixed upon. There are on Moosilauke several springs of water, along its upper regions, — each kindly provided by some good Samaritan with sheets of birch bark, such as Samaria never saw, but such as the New Hampshire woodsman easily twists into a cup.

At the highest of these springs — said popularly, but wrongly, to be the origin of the very brook in question — we left the carriage-road, and struck boldly downwards into the unbroken woods.

A Search for the Pleiades
The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol. 1), p. 102