The West Branch of the Penobscot River and Mount Katahdin

(a Bert Call photo, Special Collections, Raymond Fogler Library)

The order of the following books is by publication date.  They are all available as a free dowmload with the host site being the University of Maine Raymond Fogler Library Digital Commons.  Pull up the Fogler Library website, click on Digital Commons, type the title into the search box, and then download. The Millinicket Historical Society and Monson Historical Society  are the only two hard copy softcover book sales points; they each have a website.  I'm happy to respond to questions: geller@maine.edu

Within Katahdin’s Realm: Log Drives and Sporting Camps (2018) 

832,000 Acres: Maine’s 1825 Fire and its Piscataquis Logging Aftermath (2020)

Maine Sporting Camp History on the Piscataquis River Tributaries (2020)

West of Chesuncook & North of Moosehead: Log Drives & Sporting Camps, 1830-1971 (2022)

Rendezvous at Chesuncook, 1827-1903: A Chroncile of Landowners, Surveyors, Loggers, Settlers, & Sports (2023)

The following is a  chronological listing of my articles that have appeared in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s publication, Appalachia, America’s longest running journal of mountaineering and conservation (beginning 1876).  Links to some of these articles appear elsewhere on this website.

2013 Summer/Fall  - “Log Driving, Maine Style: Tracking a lost practice in the Debsconeag”

2014 Summer/Fall – “The Era of the Loggers: Revisiting a lost way of life in Maine between Rainbow Lake and Yoke Pond”

2015 Winter/Spring – “118 Deer Went By; Reminiscing about the old sporting camps deep in the Maine woods”

2015 Summer/Fall – “Channeling Myron Avery: Following a 1929 ramble in Maine”

2017 Winter/Spring – “The West Branch Drive: Moving logs, 1830-1971”

2017 Summer/Fall – “The Guides  All Knew Each Other: The West Branch of the Penobscot River, 1890-1935”

2018 Winter/Spring – “The First Women on Katahdin:  Was it a race or merely an exciting phase?”

2018 Summer/Fall – “Early Logging in the Southern Maine Woods: The woods produced shoe blocks, spruce gum, and more”    

2020 Winter/Spring - "A Line of Scouts: Personal History from Mead Base Camp in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire"

2021 Winter/Spring – “The Women Who Ran Sporting Camps,” and “Quarantining…” 

2022 Winter / Spring – “Be Wary of the Hind Kick”

2022 Summer / fall notes about Bill Geller (3); Bruce James & the diamond hitch

2023 Winter/Spring – “White Mountain Mysteries: A bushwhacker and his brother decode remote place names”

2023 Summer/Fall – “The Setting of Lobster Lake: Sporting families build wilderness enclaves in a remote part of Maine”