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(continued from page 29) an Abenaki Indian and his mother was a Maliseet. Although in his sixties, he still walked with the ease of an Indian and his brown face showed a long acquaintance with the outdoors. Jack Tomah was part Indian and another much sought-after guide. Some of the guides were French. The Jalberts, Willard and Sam, from St. Francis and Fort Kent, were world-famous guides. Many considered them the best in the Allagash. We became close friends with a long list of guides – Bucky McFadden, Jess Johnson, Paul Edmond, Stacy Osbourne, Derl Sherman, and Fred Munster besides many others during our seasons of living in the Allagash. Good guides are wholesome folk to know – they are as brown as squirrels, as light-footed as rabbits, as wise as the owls in the tree tops, as tireless as the eagles, as alert as the deer in the forest,
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and as happy as birds. A guide’s life is not an easy one but it is a healthful, adventurous one – even as ours was during our 29 years in the Allagash wilderness!
An excerpt from Dorothy Boone Kidney’s book, Away From It All (A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc. 1969)
DID YOU KNOW? In the 1820s, from the Baie of Chaleur, the ancestors of the Gardners, Kellys, Jacksons, and McBreiartys settled in the Allagash Region.
1938 map of Allagash (plate 02) available at: www.Galeyrie.com
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