 Adirondack Characters and Campfire Yarns:
Early Settlers and Their Traditions
By William J. O'Hern
Index
Adirondack Express (newspaper), 192
Adirondack foothills, 179
Adirondack Forest Preserve, 88, 210
Adirondack French Louie (Dunham), 7, 13, 65, 213, 215, 235, 237
Adirondack Guides’ Association, 23
Adirondack League Club, 7, 18, 20–21, 27, 175, 178, 214
Adirondack mountains, 1–2, 5, 10, 14, 22, 33, 59, 73, 93, 136, 154, 156, 162, 179,
205, 216, 220, 233, 237
Adirondack Museum, 7, 69, 141
Adirondack Park, 11, 51, 215
Adirondack springs, 184
Adirondack Stories of the Black River Country (O’Hern), 215
Adirondack Survey, 78
Albany, 81, 117
Allen, Mart, 192
American Field, The (Magazine), 38, 42
Ampersand Lake, 159
Anderson, Donald “Jack,” 161
Atwell, 5, 90, 218, 226
Atwell Fish and Game Club, 90
Baby Lake, 133
Barber, Amaziah D. “Dut,” 2–3, 85–86
Barneveld, 89
Bear Pond, 216
Bear stories, 77–78, 105, 122–23, 148
Becraft, Giles, 2, 7, 13, 20
Beetle, David, 177
Bellinger, Dell, 224–25
Bennett, Edward, 79, 81–82
Bennett, Michael, 220
Bennett, Si, 71
Big Moose, 109, 146
Big Moose Lake, 141, 201
Big Rock Lake, 112
Big West, see West Lake
Binks, Edward, 175
Birth of a River (O’Donnell), 213, 239
Black bear(s), 77–78, 105, 122–23, 148
Black Creek Lake, 16, 48, 53, 99, 101, 110, 112–13, 124, 127–8
Black River, 1–2, 5, 29, 50, 108, 180, 203, 213–15, 217–18, 239
Blankman, Edgar, 235
Blankman, Edward, 1, 3, 5, 7, 96, 145, 235
Blankman, Lloyd, 1–2, 5–7, 11, 13–14, 16, 30, 43, 47, 51–52, 65, 85,
93–97, 104, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145–46, 173, 175, 178, 180–81, 185,
201–3, 206, 215,
233, 235, 237
articles by, refer to table of contents, page v
Blue Mountain Lake, 7, 70–71, 76, 81, 84, 140
Bockes, W. A., 82
Boonville, 27, 181, 192–93, 213, 239
Boonville Herald, 73, 223
Brantingham Lake, 184, 203
Brook Trout Lake, 52, 53–55, 188
Brown’s Tract, 25–26,
Brown’s Tract Inlet, 70, 79
Buffalo Head (train station), 26, 28
Buntline, Ned, pseud. of Edward Z. C. Judson,
13, 70–73
Byron-Curtiss, Rev. Arthur Leslie, 2–3, 5–6, 30, 201, 204, 213–20,
222–27, 238–39
Camp Pine Knot, 81–82
Camps, 1–2, 4, 7, 9–10, 15–17, 21–28, 30, 37–39, 40, 42–48,
51–58, 61–68, 71, 73, 75–76, 78–86, 88–90, 93, 95, 99,
107–110, 112, 115–120, 125, 127–29, 136–38, 140, 142–43,
146–56, 158–63, 167, 170–72, 177–79, 187–89, 192–96, 202,
204–5, 214–16, 218–24, 226–29, 235–238
See also fishing; green-timber; hunting; logging; lumber; trapline
Canachagala Lake, 112
Canton, N.Y., 235
Carnahan, Sol, 67, 133, 142
Castorland, 203
Cedar Lakes Region, 61, 63
Chase, Caleb, 79
Civil War, 91, 93, 97, 109, 142
Cleveland, Grover, 81–83
Clinton, N.Y., 14, 51, 206, 235–36
Cobblestone Creek, 118
Cold River, 53, 154–61, 211
Colvin, Verplanck, 78, 187
Conklin, Burton “Burt,” ii, 3, 13, 48, 67, 93–96, 99, 101–3,
108–129, 142, 163, 186
Conklin, Elijah, 54, 57
Conklin, Harriet, 93, 98,
Conklin, Henry, 93, 97–100, 110
Conklin, Jack, ii, 2, 106–7, 117, 179
Conklin, Lillian, 98
Conklin, Lyman, ii, 93–95, 100
Conklin, Milo D., 93, 95, 100
Conklin, Roscoe, 3, 105
Conklin, Ruth, 14, 93, 98
Conklin, Roy, ii, 93, 104, 110, 112–114, 118–120, 122, 124–27, 129–30,
132–33
Conkling Brook, 132, 186
Cool, Byron E., 83
Cooper, Cirrus, 44, 68
Cooper, Alice, 44–46
Constable Hall, 205
Country Life (magazine) 7, 143
Courier, Clinton, N.Y., The, 5, 7, 14, 137, 139
Courtney, Nora, 142
Courtney, William, 148
Cranberry Island, 223
Crozier, Billy “Moley,” 90–91
Crowley, Tim, 145–48, 187
Crystal Creek, 180
Dailey, E. J., 154–162
Dalton, Jim “Brockie,” 13, 26–27
Deer, 3–4, 27–30, 48, 52, 54–58, 62–64, 68–70, 72–73, 76,
86, 88, 101, 109, 114, 117, 119, 121–22, 130–31, 158, 163, 186
Deer hides, 56–57, 64
Deer hounds, see Hounding
DeSormo, Maitland, 51, 139, 141, 154, 235
Dexter, Orrando (AKA Orlando), 108
Discover the West Central Adirondacks (McMartin), 178
Donaldson, Alfred L., 78n
Doty, Philip, 143, 146
Duck Hole, 155–56, 159
Dudley House, 83
Dunakin, Sam, 25–26
Dunham, Harvey, 2, 5–7, 13–14, 56, 60, 65, 145, 201, 203, 213–15, 233, 235,
237
Dunning, Alvah, 13, 68–85
Durant, William West, 80–83
Eagle Lake, 13, 71
Eighth Lake, 9, 70, 76, 78, 80, 84
Enos, N.Y., 77, 213
Enos, “Uncle,” 77
Fagan, Louis, 138
Falls Pond, 55
Farrtown, 213
Ferris, John, 216
Finch-Conklin feud, 102–3
Fire tower, 177
First National Bank of Saratoga, 82
Fish House, 202
Fishing, 19, 33, 40–47, 70, 80, 83–84, 89, 95, 101, 124–26, 132–33,
135, 164–75, 179–180, 187–89, 227–30
camps, 22
fly fishing, 84, 164–65, 175
Flansburg, Elizabeth, 97, 110
Forest and Stream (magazine), 56–57, 83
Forestport, 5, 26, 28–29, 213–14, 220, 222, 224, 238
“Forever Wild,” 88
Fort Schuyler Club, 59
Fort Noble Mountain, 36, 177–78
Fort Orange Club, 81
Foster, Nat, 28, 33, 110, 116
Franklin County, 108, 143
French Louie, see Seymour, Louis “French Louie”
Fulton Chain (of Lakes), 21–22, 25, 70, 73–74, 76, 201
Fulton County, 57, 109, 152, 202
Fur-Fish-Game (magazine), 156
Fur News and Outdoor World (magazine), 158
Genesee River, 87–88
Gerster, Arpad G. Dr., 70–71, 78–80, 83
Glass, Joseph, J. Jr., 80
Glass, Edgar P., 80
Glens Falls, 81, 147
Gloversville, 138, 148
Goldthwaite, Kenneth, 143–44, 146,
Goodbye Mountain Man (Anderson), 161
Goose Neck Lake, 112
Grindstone Creek, 226
Green timber camp, 120, 129
Guides, 2, 13–31, 68–85, 106, 158, 178, 211, 218–20
See also Dunning, Alvah; Becraft, Giles; Dalton, Jim; Dunakin, Sam;
Murdock, Slim; Shepard, Nat; Wendover, George
Gulf Stream, 179
Gum picking, 143–148, 187
See also Spruce Gum
Hamilton County, 33, 35, 42, 57, 68, 70, 110, 147
Haskell Inn, 2, 97, 142, 179, 182
Haskell, Trume, 2, 60, 63, 89
Herkimer, 60, 98, 106, 110, 127, 138
Herkimer County, 11, 18, 50, 90, 110, 117, 177, 213, 220
Hermit, 3, 7, 24, 33–47, 51, 53, 68–69, 71, 80, 86, 90–91, 154, 159, 161,
187
High Falls, 88, 89
Hinckley, 59, 73, 103, 116, 185
Hinckley Reservoir, 28, 53
Hochschild, Harold K., 71
Hodges, Frederick, 139–41
Hoffmeister, 10, 36, 44, 47, 191
Hotel, 45
School, 191
Honnedaga Lake, 3, 18, 20, 27, 85, 85, 112, 117, 128, 133
See also Jocks Lake
Horn Lake, 112, 118–20, 203
Hounding, 57–58, 86, 101, 183
Hubbard, Mary, 142
Hunting, 26, 28–30, 38–39, 57–59, 68,
74–78, 86, 105, 121–23, 130–31, 179, 204, 220
camps, 10, 22, 117, 178, 188, 202
Huntington, Collis P., 83
Ice Cave Mountain, 112
Indian Lake, 55, 112, 124–25
Indian Lake, N.Y. 60–61, 65
Indian River, 52, 55, 63–64, 112, 118, 128, 163, 187
Indians (Native Americans), 3, 27, 39–40, 56–57, 78n, 116, 140, 148, 151, 187,
202
See also, Iroquois, Mohawk
Inlet, N.Y., 22, 25
Irondequoit Mountain, 36
Irondequoit Stream, 168, 170, 172
Iroquois, 36, 39
Jamieson, Paul, 31, 201, 237
Jocks Lake, 2–3, 27, 85–86, 89, 93, 110
See also Honnedaga Lake
Johnson, Sir William, 78n, 204
Johnson’s Pulp Corporation, 222
Johnson, Mother, 183
Jones Lake, 112, 118
Jones, Will, 194, 199
Kenwell, Gerald, 21–22, 25, 188
Kenwell, Isaac, 56, 61, 81, 216
Lawrence, Jim “Pants,” 188–89
Lawrence, Marinus, 60
Leaf, Johnny, 3, 56–57, 148, 188
Lewis County, 50, 147, 203
Lewis, Will, 87–88
Liars Club, 214
Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, The
(Byron-Curtiss), 5, 201, 238
Life With Noah (O’Hern), 154
Little Black Creek, 16, 48, 116, 132
Little Deer Lake, 48, 95, 101–3, 128, 186
Little Falls, 109
Little Salmon Lake, 112
Lobb, Floyd Ferris, 3, 33–47
Loggers, 149–53
Logging, 35, 46, 149–53, 192–93, 226, 239
camps, 1, 149–53, 189, 192–93, 226
sled, 152–54
Lone Pine Camp, 216
Long Lake, 22, 68, 155, 183
Lowville, 180, 203
Lumber,
camps, ii, 61–62, 66–67, 80, 137–38, 149–53, 189,
192–93, 195, 211, 226
companies, 61, 95, 149, 154–55, 189, 226
Lumberjacks, 34, 149–53, 160, 213
Mad River, 180
Maple syrup (making), 93, 95
Mather, Fred, 70–73, 83, 201–2
Mayhew, Mort, 222–23
McCullen, Johnny, ii, 66–67
McMartin, Barbara, 178
Metcalf Lake, 38, 112, 128
Metcalf Stream (Brook), 112
Milks, Ray, 129, 163
Mill Creek, 109, 149, 153
Mitchell Flow, 163
Mohawk (tribe), 39–40
Mohawk River, 39, 60, 132
Mohawk, Valley, 78, 147
Moonshine, 106–7
Moose, 68, 73–76, 83,
Moose River, 21–24, 27, 50, 54–56, 58, 62–63, 108, 112, 129, 146, 188
Morehouseville, 36, 128
Morgan, Pierpont, 83
Morrison Inn, 29–30
Mount Tom, 216
Mud Lake, 52, 62–63, 177, 188
Murray, Rev. William H. H., 31, 69, 78, 84, 139
My Angling Friends, Mather, 70
Nat Foster Lodge, 4, 213, 217–20, 222, 226, 238
Newcomb, 79
Newhouse traps, 7, 113
Newton Corners, 52, 60–61, 63–65
See also Speculator
New York State, 80, 88, 196, 213
New York City, 78, 83, 136, 237, 239
New York Sun (newspaper), 73, 76
Nobleboro, 36, 63, 85, 96, 177
Norris, Isaac T., 83
North Country Life (magazine), 7
North Creek, N.Y., 60, 147–48
North Lake, 5, 28, 83, 90, 112, 213, 218–20, 222–26, 238–39
Northrup Lake, 89, 112, 124–26, 189
Northrup, M.S., 58
Northville, 206
Northville-Lake Placid Trail, 157
North Wilmurt, 3, 28, 105, 175, 179
Northwood, 48, 53, 73, 103, 186
Norton, Mortimer, 2, 5–6, 33, 41, 47, 164, 166–67, 172, 178, 201–4, 233,
236
Norwich, 87–88, 91
Number Four, N.Y., 181, 205
Observer Dispatch (newspaper, Utica) 60, 126
O’Connor, Charley, 220
O’Donnell, Fred, 194–200
O’Donnell, Thomas C., 192–199, 239
Ohio, N.Y., 14, 90, 96, 101, 128, 138
Old Forge, N.Y., 26, 192
One-room schoolhouse(s), 191–199
Osgood River, 144
Otter Brook, 22–24, 55, 188, 216
Page, Dan, 188–89
Palmerton, Dave, 44–45
Paper companies, 54, 117, 180, 189
Panther, 39, 47, 68, 84–85
Panther Mountain, 38, 46
Panther Mountain Stream, 167–172
Pardee, Ben, 163
Pardee, George, 48, 101
Pardee, John, ii, 67
Pardee, William, 48
Paul Smiths Hotel, 181
Perry, Gig, 226
Pezeeko (Indian of legend), 39, 187
Pillsbury Lake, 55, 61
Piseco, 5, 33–47, 146, 148, 183, 187
Piseco Lake, 3, 20, 33–47, 68, 76–77, 121, 148, 236
Piseco Lake House, 183
Phelps, Maynard, 49–50
Photographers, 93, 135, 136–141, 155, 186
See also Reising, Grotus; Hodges, Frederick
Plattsburgh, 144
Poland, N.Y., 34–35, 38, 44, 47, 138, 180, 187
Pony Bob, 213–4
Post Star, The, (newspaper), 81
Potter, Bill, 7, 88–90
Prospect, 59, 67, 177
Radford, Harry, 78–79, 139
Rainbow Lake, 143, 146
Ralph, Fred, 48, 59,
Raquette Falls, 183
Raquette Lake, 68, 70–71, 73, 76, 78–84
Raquette River, 183
Recollections of a N.Y. Surgeon (Gerster), 80
Reising, Coonrdt, 123
Reising, Grotus, ii, 45, 67, 93, 96, 102, 105–6, 131, 135, 137–8, 142, 186, 191
Roblee, Allie, 71, 79
Robertson, Edward, 106
Rochester Camp, 88–89
Rochester, N.Y., 21, 89
Rome, N.Y., 27, 44, 47, 204, 231, 238
Rondeau, Noah John, 53, 154, 159, 161
Rustic Inn, The, 26, 127–28
Sable Mountains, 144
Saint Nicholas Hotel, 182
Salmon, 68, 171
Samson Pond (Lake) 55, 57
Santa Clara Lumber Company, 154
Sawmills, ii, 66, 88, 96, 127, 149, 191–92
Schools, 191–199, 204, 235
Scott, Philo, 31
Seabury Stillwater, 48, 57, 112, 237
Seavey, Charles J., 38, 47
Seventh Lake, 9, 76, 84
Seymour, Louis “French Louie,” 1–3, 7, 14, 21, 24, 33, 51–66, 73, 87,
145, 177, 187–89, 216
Shanties see camps
Shepard, Henry P., 15–19
Shepard, Nat, 14–18, 98
Sheppard, E. L. “Jack,” 70, 201–2
Shingle-making, 120, 123–24
Shirttail Creek, 112, 126, 163
Smith, Richard “Red,” 154, 216
Snyder Lake, 117–19
South Lake, 16, 58, 112, 128
Spears, Eldridge, 52–54, 56–57, 59, 73, 128
Spears, John, 53, 56
Spears, Randolph, 48
Spears, Raymond, 108–9
Speculator, 53, 55–56, 59–60, 65, 126, 148, 188,
See also Newton Corners
Spruce gum, 7, 55, 143–8, 187
picking, see also gum picking
Spruce Lake, 128, 147–48, 178, 187–89
Spruce Mountain, 108, 187
Sturges, Burr, 60–61
Syracuse, N.Y., 80
Tamarack Marsh, 116, 129
Tank, Roy, 216
Township 34 (Roblee), 71, 79
Trapline, 1, 16–17, 38, 47, 55, 63, 108, 110, 112–120, 127–29,
154–157, 160, 162–63
camps, 16, 28, 35, 55, 61, 108–9, 112, 115, 118, 120, 123, 126,
128, 159–161, 186
Traplines and Trails (Dailey), 162
Trappers, 22, 25, 28, 34, 38, 51–55, 60, 67–69, 71, 88–89, 93, 97–98,
101, 105–106, 108–129, 143, 147–8, 154–163
Trapping, 30, 34, 38, 52–5, 61, 67, 71, 76–78, 108–129, 148, 154–163
Tremaine, Alice, 44, 47
Tremaine, Will, 44
Trenton Falls, 132
Trolling spoon, 33, 40–42, 46–47
Trout, 20, 33–35, 38–44, 46–47, 52, 55–56, 60, 62, 68, 70, 80–81,
83–84, 89–90, 98–99, 101–2, 110, 124–27, 132–33, 158,
164–75, 178–80, 183, 186–87, 189, 202, 204, 210, 217, 228–30,
236–37
Tug Hill, 49–50, 179–81
Turner, Cliff, 223
Twin Lake reservoir, 103
Twin Lakes, 108, 112, 128, 175, 179
Twitchell Lake, 146
Utica, 20, 27, 36, 41, 48, 59–60, 68, 76, 83, 85, 88, 97, 105–6, 108, 220, 237
Utley, Sam, 214, 224
Volstead Act, 106
Watkins, Ira, 5, 218
Wendover, George, 13, 28–30
West Canada Creek, 1–2, 5, 10, 14, 19, 20, 34–36, 38, 60, 67, 75, 86,
89–90, 95–96, 101, 108, 110, 112, 116, 121, 124, 127, 132–33, 142, 146,
163–64, 172–75, 177–78, 185–89, 204, 213–14, 228–30, 232,
235, 237
West Canada Creek (Beetle), 177
West Canada Mountain, 227
West Canada Lakes, 1, 21, 52–63, 177–8, 187–89, 227, 235
West (Canada) Lake, 2, 21, 33, 51–55, 58, 61–62, 67, 177, 187–89
West Leyden Hotel, 179, 181
Wheelertown, 28, 213
White Lead Lake, 185
Williams, Clarence, 143, 145, 148
Wilmurt, 14, 18, 35, 53, 59, 86, 89, 93, 96–99, 103–6, 109, 113, 116, 123,
137–38, 173, 177–79, 185
See also North Wilmurt
Wilmurt Corners, 96
Wilmurt Falls, 19, 173
Wilmurt Lake, 20, 101, 177
Wilmurt Lake Club, 101
Wolf Creek, 55, 64, 112
Wolf Hollow, 93
Wolf Mountain, 222–23
Wolves, 57–58, 84–85
Woodhull, 99
Wood, Richard “Dick” 154–62, 211
Woodruff, Lieut.-Gov., 83
Woods and Waters (newspaper), 78, 236
Wright, Ben, 180
Wright, Jock, 110, 116
Wright, John A., 185
Wright’s Silver Crème polish, 185
Wright’s Hotel, 185
York State Tradition (magazine), 7, 97, 108,
139, 154
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