New book on the Moosehead Lake Region

Author Suzanne M. AuClair has released “Moosehead Lake Region: Gateway to Maine’s North Woods” through Arcadia Publishing.

The Moosehead Lake Region, carved out of the last glacial age some 12,000 years ago,  connected great river routes through the northern wilderness. For thousands of years, Native Americans canoed these waters, navigating to woodland summering grounds. By the 1830s, Moosehead Lake became a staging ground for early Euro-American logging, settlement, and outdoor recreation, with Greenville as its supply center.

Early rusticators, like naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau, learned from Native Americans, like Chief Joe Attean of the Penobscot Nation, about the unbound bounty of woods and waters that lay before them, then captured the imagination of it for a waiting society. Later, guides like Greenville Algonquin Henry (Red Eagle) Perley and Penobscot Roland  (Needahbeh) Nelson promoted this “Gateway to the North Woods” as an outdoor traveler’s paradise. It is still today. Join the Moosehead Historical Society in an adventure that captures the spirit of the Maine wilds. 

AuClair is executive director of the Moosehead Historical Society, where these images are held. She has been writing about Moosehead Lake’s North Woods region for 27 years and produced the anthology “The Origins, Formation & History of Maine’s Inland Fisheries Division.”

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