Author and Transendentalist Henry David Thoreau visits Indian Island for the first time.
Author and Transendentalist Henry David Thoreau meets and hires Joseph Attean to guide him into the Maine woods.
Author and Transendentalist Henry David Thoreau climbs Katahdin.
Guiding Henry David Thoreau on Pine Stream, a tributary of the West Branch of the Penobscot River, Joseph Attean kills a moose.
Author and Transendentalist Henry David Thoreau comes to Indian Island and hires Joe Polis for a journey to Moosehead Lake, the West Branch of Penobscot, the Allagash, East Branch of Penobscot, and then back down the main branch of the Penobscot River.