Bennett, Dean B.,

The Forgotten Nature of New England: a search for traces of the original wilderness.

Camden, ME, Down East, (1996). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB oblong. Early European explorers were both frightened and captivated by the wilderness they named New England. Whatever drew them there. they soon began to modify the landscape far more extensively than the original inhabitants ever had.

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Crane, J. R.,

Fighting Yankees And Other Yarns.

Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, (1967). VG in G DJ. Many of these pieces originate from Maine; all have the flavor of New England in them. DJ price clipped, edge wear. Crane's grandmother used to spin sea yarns once a week in a little one-room schoolhouse. Her collection was turned over to him at her death and he added to it steadily especially when he worked at an old-fashioned waterfront store which boasted a loafing room for customers around a pot-bellied stove.

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Doan, Daniel,

Indian Stream Republic.

Hanover, NH, University Press New England, (1997). 2nd Printing. VG LG SZ PB. While the boundary between New England and Canda was being argued the New Hampshire legislators squabbled setlers. decided to take mat+++++into their own handaYhry frvlstrf yhrmderlbrd yhr infrprnfrny india Stream Republic establishing a consitution, a bicameral legislature, courts, laws and a militia. The jurisdictional battle escalated, the Indian Stream militia "invaded" Canada and blood, though onloy a tricke- was shed. An independent study of a little known American frontier and the incomparable individualists who decided to estsblish and defend their own government there" Howard Frank Mosher, author of Where the River Flow North Author Daniel Doan combines a sportwsman's perceptions, a naturalist's eye, and a novelist's craft into a lyrical tle of settlers whose attempt at an impossible independence came dangrously close to precipitating war.

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Oppel, Frank, compiled by,

Tales of Old New England.

Secaucus, NJ, Castle, (1986). 2nd prntg. VG Hardbacck in G DJ. New England has the largest and richest history of America from the wharves of Gloucester to the sugar maple groves of New. Hampshire. Splendid evocations of the New England of a hundred years ago.

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Yankee, Janice Brand & Lon Baird,

More Best Back Roads & Small Towns of New England: easy to use travel itneraries.

NH, Yankee, ND. VG PB. What is it that draws visitors each year? It is rural and sophisticated.

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