Passaconaway's Realm by Russell M Lawson

Passaconaway's Realm by Russell M Lawson

Now that New Hampshire's dominant White Mountain peak can be climbed relatively easily in a long day, or more comfortably ascended by car or cog railway, it is easy to forget that it was once considered by Native Americans and most European settlers to be too sacred and formidable to attempt. In fact, mountain climbing was relatively rare until recent times, making the fifteen ascents of Mount Washington between 1632 and 1804 all the more remarkable. Passaconaway's Realm is a concise, historically and scientifically correct, and very dramatic story of Mount Washington's earliest climbs and the men who made them in pursuit of botanical specimens; meteorologic, geographic, and geological data; and personal adventure. Incorporating sources that have never been utilized, Russell M. Lawson highlights the interaction of the wilderness landscape and the native peoples with such British-American newcomers and invaders as Walter Neale, Darby Field, John Josselyn, Captain Wells, Robert Rogers, Nicholas Austin, Governor John Wentworth, Jeremy Belknap, and Manasseh Cutler. He focuses on rustic frontiersman Captain John Evans, a founder of Fryeburg, Maine, an axe-man and hunter, but also the wilderness guide for the men of science during the 1784 Belknap-Cutler expedition. Lawson describes in close and intriguing detail the personal relations and aspirations, the logistics and difficulties, and the scientific aspirations and outcomes of this key early ascent.

Russell M. Lawson is Associate Professor of History at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He has written numerous works in American and European history. He is editor of Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, 3 vols. (2008). Other recent works include The Isles of Shoals in the Age of Sail: A Brief History and The Piscataqua Valley in the Age of Sail: A Brief History, both published in 2007. He was an editor and contributor to Dictionary of United States History, New England States (2005), Encyclopedia of New England Culture (2005), and The American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience (2003).

Benjamin A. Lawson is a Graduate Instructor in American urban and social history at the University of Iowa. He has previously published entries in Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, 3 vols. (2008) and has had original maps, drawings, and photographs published in several books. Benjamin also has a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from Oklahoma State University.

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Titel	Passaconaway's Realm
Autor	Russell M Lawson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University Press of New England
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-05-01
Seitenanzahl	176
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