Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…
Category: hiking
Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua
Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.
Colby & Bacon on a Night March
The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …
Colby 35: Day of Rest
1862: Colby’s footsore “day of rest” just happens to be the bloodiest day in US military history …
Colby 34: Trouble in Camp
1862: Colby & Bacon may have “straggled” in a field the night before, but they’re up at dawn and on the road …
Colby 33: Straggling Commenced
1862: Colby’s regiment gets back to basics on its first hard night march …
Colby 32: We Plodded Doggedly On
1862: The sun goes down & the miles drag on …
Colby 31: Dusty Roads
1862: Troop movements along the Potomac …
Colby 30: Night’s March!
1862: The orders go out: It’s a night’s march! …
Swett 10: Snow-balling in June
1865: The restorative powers of the White Mountains during the closing months of the Civil War…
Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post)
1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull… (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)
Colby 22: Philadelphia by Mule
1862: With the war raging next door in Maryland, the city of Philadelphia STILL insists on certain inconvenient city ordinances …
Colby 20: On Parade
1862: Discipline stretches in the hot noonday sun …
Swett 8: The Old Man of the Mountain
1865: Swett gets his first glimpse of a rocky NH icon …
The Wood-Pile (Robert Frost)
I spent the afternoon exploring the winter woods on the mountain, and came back home to spend the evening with this poem by Robert Frost…
ADVENTURES of a DEAF-MUTE… (Cover & Intro Links)
Let’s kick off this series with a pin-up image of Mr. Swett in the Flume…
Snow-shoes (Weare, 1762)
The only way to travel in those 18th century snows…
Young Chase at Keene
Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…
Darby Field Climbs Mount Washington (1642)
Two Indian guides lead the first European expedition to the top of the White Mountains…
“Walk to Camp” by Becky Rule (Guest Post)
NH storyteller Becky Rule adds some quick cartoons to her tale of a fashionable bear encounter: (Drawn & told at … More
