1917 June:
Notes by the editor:
Mount Monadnock by Allen H. Bent, p. 109. Remarkable, concise, comprehensive, early history of
Mondadnock including Native Americans and first European contact around the Monadnock.
Includes an extensive bibliography. It cites a poem by William Ellery Channing called The
Wanderer about Thoreau and his camp on Monadnock.
References continue to the "Great Storm" of October 1915 which may actutally have occurred in
September as their is one article about a group of hikers snowbound at Lakes of the Clouds
Hut for a week due to deep snow and ice.
Arthur Stanley Pease's article: "Notes on the Botanical Exploration of the White Mountains" is also
placed in a confusing chronological spot. It is listed in a few table of contents. However, It is
a very important piece that lists the naturalists that visited the Whites between the late 1700s
and the early 1900s. The following list is conclusive but not exhaustive"
Jacob Bigelow
Francis Boott
Dr. Manassah Cutler
Michaux (many first discoveries of rare plants)
Fernald (Gray's Manual of Botany author)
William Oaks
William Peck (Geum peckii)
Pursch
Dr. Frederick Tuckerman
Charles Pickering
Nuttal
Thoreau and brother John (1839) hoping to find 43 new species and found 42.
Lucy Crawford"s History of the White Mountains (1845) chronicles William Boott's first trip in 1842, etc.
Book Review
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1916.
Report of the Counselor of Trails:
This report is long and includes a complete description of the horrendous storm of September 1915 in which "whole miles og trails were literally wifped out existence. It took two professional woodsmen armed with axes and cross cut saws sixteen days to tunnel a way through the blow downs on just one trail." C.W. Blood.
Ethan Pond Trail reportedly had 2 solid miles of blowdowns. Even logging was ceased for a year.
Three experienced trampers consumed one entire day descending the three miles from Lafayette to Garfield Pond a few days before the trail was opened.
