Thomas Cole relates a local legend to Henry Cheever Pratt during their 1828 hike…
Drawn (loosely) from Cole’s diary:
A Trip to the White Mountains
Thomas Cole’s Diary
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Actually, Cole says only this on the Chocorua legend:
Chocorua [was] an Indian, from whom the peak, upon which he was killed by the whites, takes its name. [Life & Works, p.96]
- This particularly mercenary version of the Chocorua legend comes from Willey’s Incidents (p.54):
Live Free and Draw 
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