Keywords: Maine hunting guides
Item 80729
Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881
Contributed by: Abbe Museum Date: 1881 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Stereograph
Item 11272
Charles Parson, Elmer Hale, Maine woods, 1900
Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman
How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together
Story
A New Beginning for Wabanaki Land Relationships
by John Banks
Wabanaki leadership in land stewardship