Read Now The Penobscot Man (1904) PDF
"Remarkable book...intensified flavors and qualities of river life such as exists in no other book." -Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (2005)"Eckstorm was...a naturalist...wilderness guide...highly regarded as an authority on Maine's Penobscot people." -Thoreau in His Own Time (2012)"Eckstorm's interest in life in the Maine woods—particularly the life of the river drivers who worked for the lumber industry along the Penobscot River —provided the impetus for The Penobscot Man." -American Folklore (2004)"Sought to correct some misunderstandings...about Maine resulting from Henry David Thoreau's publication of The Maine Woods." -Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge (2013)Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) was an American writer, ornithologist and folklorist. In "The Pendebscot Man" Fannie Hardy Eckstorm has given us a collection of stories of the Maine river men. With a loyal hand she has chronicled some of the deeds which exalted to heroism those lives of toil and hardship. Without idealization she has recorded them, but in the honest colors of reality; and these tales assume for us a new significance because their characters actually lived and breathed, and because these deeds of truest courage were performed without a thought of their heroism, without a suspicion that they were to be set forth in printed page.The author knows well of what she writes, and her work is endowed with finest sympathy, and the full understanding of long familiarity. Her stories have that revealing, spiritual quality, so that the reader sees not only the deed, but the soul of the man who does it. The inner and the outer life are both made manifest.CONTENTSI. Lugging Boat On Sowadnehunk II. The Grim Tale Of Larry Connors III. Hymns Before Battle IV. The Death Of Thoreau's Guide V. The Gray Rock Of Abol VI. A Clump Of Posies VII. Working Nights VIII. The Naughty Pride Of Black Sebat And Others IX. Rescue X. "joyfully"
